marry his daughter to the lowly boy, but expels her from home to a lame cabin near the garden. Some time later, war breaks out, and the Grindkopf mounts a lame horse and joins the army, under sniding remarks. At a distance from the city, he doffs the shabby disguise, summons the horse with the ring and rides into battle. He vanquishes the enemies, but is hurt in the hand, which the vizier bandages. He returns home and resumes the Grindkopf identity. Back from the war, the vizier is advised to banish his son-in-law in order to avoid further humiliation, and pays a visit to his daughter. Inside the house, Grindkopf lies on the bed, and the vizier notices the bandaged hand. He realizes his son-in-law was the knight at the battlefield, and his daughter confirms his conclusions. In an Iraqi tale collcted by E. S. Drower with the title The Blind Sultan, a sultan has two wives, an Arab woman, and a Abyssinian one, two sons by his first wife and one son by the second. After the elder brother marries an emir's daughter and the middle son a wizier's daughter, the younger brother leaves home and wanders around the world. On his journey, he helps a lion by dislogdging a thorn from its paw and he is given three hairs from its mane. The prince rubs the three hairs; three slaves appear before him. The youth asks for a flying mare and fine garments, then rides the mare to a city. He buys a sheep from a shepherd, kills it and makes a cap out of its paunch, then finds work as a gardener's apprentice near the Sultan's palace. The sultan's youngest daughter sees the boy and falls in love with him. Later, at the princesses' behest, the gardener brings three melons to their father, the Sultan, in order to assess their marriageability. The king decides it is past time he married his daughter and sets a suitor selection test: the princesses are to throw apples at their men of choice when they parade beneath their window. The two elder princesses choose, respectively, an emir's son and a wazir's son. When it is her turn, she sees that the gardener's apprentice is not at the gathering of suitors, and asks her father to bring him in. She throws her apple to the boy, much to her father's disgust,