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A Collection of Illustrated classic fairy tales for children by Andrew Lang

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KUPTI AND IMANI
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home with the money. As she had done before so Imani did again day after day. Always she spent a penny upon oil and flax, always she tended the old man's lame limb, and spun and wove the most beautiful cloths and sold them at high prices. Gradually the city became famous for her beautiful stuffs, the old fakir's lame leg
became straighter and stronger, and the hole under the floor of the hut where they kept their money became fuller and fuller of gold pieces. At last, one day, the princess said:
' I really think we have got enough to live in greater comfort.' And she sent for builders, and they built a
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