` There are two thousand of us all told , and every man has his sword . ' ` He will manage it somehow , ' answered Dschemila , ` he is a powerful king ! ' ` She is right , ' said an old man . ` Take away the litter , and let her go on foot if she is afraid . ' ` But it is absurd ! ' exclaimed the rest ; ` how can the ogre get hold of her ? ' ' I will not go , ' said Dschemila again . ` You do not know that monster ; I do . ' And while they were disputing the bridegroom arrived . ` Let her alone . She shall stay in her father 's house . After all , I can live here , and the wedding feast shall be made ready . ' And so they were married at last , and died without having had a single quarrel . -LSB- Märchen und Gedichte aus der Stadt Tripolis . -RSB- JANNI AND THE DRAKEN Once there was a man who shunned the world , and lived in the wilderness . He owned nothing but a flock of sheep , whose milk and wool he sold , and so procured himself bread to eat ; he also carried wooden spoons , and sold them . He had a wife and one little girl , and after a long time his wife had another child . The evening it was born the man went to the nearest village to fetch a nurse , and on the way he met a monk who begged him for a night 's lodging . This the man willingly granted , and took him home with him . There being no one far nor near to baptize the child , the man asked the monk to do him this service , and the child was given the name of Janni .
In the course of time Janni 's parents died , and he and his sister were left alone in the world ; soon affairs went badly with them , XXXXX they determined to wander away to seek their fortune .
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