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Twenty-Two Goblins by Unknown
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friend the counsellor's son, washed his hands and feet, and sat
down under a tree on the bank.

And then he saw a beautiful maiden who had come there with her
servants to bathe. She seemed to fill the lake with the stream of her
beauty, and seemed to make lilies grow there with her eyes, and
seemed to shame the lotuses with a face more lovely than the
moon. She captured the prince's heart the moment that he saw her.
And the prince took her eyes captive.

The girl had a strange feeling when she saw him, but was too
modest to say a word. So she gave a hint of the feeling in her heart.
She put a lotus on her ear, laid a lily on her head after she had
made the edge look like a row of teeth, and placed her hand on her
heart. But the prince did not understand her signs, only the clever
counsellor's son understood them all.

A moment later the girl went away, led by her servants. She went
home and sat on the sofa and stayed there. But her thoughts were
with the prince.

The prince went slowly back to his city, and was terribly lonely
without her, and grew thinner every day. Then his friend the son of
the counsellor took him aside and told him that she was not hard
to find. But he had lost all courage and said: "My friend, I don't
know her name, nor her home, nor her family. How can I find her?
Why do you vainly try to comfort me?"

Then the counsellor's son said: "Did you not see all that she hinted
with her signs? When she put the lotus on her ear, she meant that
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