Week 6 Reading A: Tales of a Parrot

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There once was a prince, the son of a Sultan.  He was married to a most beautiful woman.  He was one day in the market & saw a parrot.  The parrot convinced the prince to buy him, telling him that a caravan was coming to buy all the spikenard & if he wanted to make money, he should buy it all up before the caravan got to the town.  The prince did and what the parrot said came true & the prince made a great deal of money.

One day the prince had to make a journey to another country.  His wife was so lonely for her prince.  after about 6 months, she saw another foreign prince & liked him.  The foreign prince looked upon the wife & decided he must have her.  So he sent a messenger to try to convince her to meet him.  The princess told the parrot's companion bird about what she was going to do & the bird begged her not to go.  This angered the princess so she killed the bird.  The parrot was smart so he told the princess that he would help her & if she was caught, he would try to help her with her prince.  He began to tell her stories to keep her occupied so that she wouldn't sneak out & commit adultery.  

The first story was of another parrot who kept the lady's secrets while she committed adultery.  When the woman was found out, she thought the parrot had told on her so she plucked all his feathers & cast him aside for dead.  The parrot regained his strength & when the woman was eventually cast out from her home anyway, the parrot told the woman to shave her head & fast for 40 days & then he would help her with her husband.  She did as told & at the end of 40 days, the parrot reunited the man & woman & they all lived happily ever after.  At the end of the story, the parrot told the princess she should hurry & meet the prince, but seeing as it was daylight now, she stayed home & slept because she'd been up all night.

This continued on for many nights.  The princess would come to the parrot, asking for permission to leave & see her lover, but the parrot would tell her a story that lasted all night before telling her to go see her lover.  However, seeing it was then dawn, the princess couldn't leave.

(Tales of a Parrot from the Un-Textbook)

Bibliography:  Tales of a Parrot.  Weblink.

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