Gisar

"Have you ever heard of a glorious Nightingale known as Gisar?" he asked at first of every traveler who came in and sipped his coffee.

The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911

"Tell me then where I can find the Nightingale Gisar and you shall have back your beak and your wing and your leg."

The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911

Nightingale Gisar and betray himself by crying out.

The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911

"But how, Princess, if I did not steal from you the Nightingale Gisar was I then able to bring back that glorious bird and hang his cage beside the fountain in the mosque?"

The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911

Son and the man who stole from me my glorious Nightingale Gisar and whom

The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911

Nightingale Gisar singing beside the fountain, then indeed would the

The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911

The Tiger had never heard of the Nightingale Gisar but he thought that his oldest brother the Lion might know.

The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911

Then they told him all -- how it was this Prince and not the older brothers who had found the Nightingale Gisar and how the older brothers had robbed him of his prize and beaten him insensible.

The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911

"Because, O Flower o 'the World, you were so beautiful that I feared, were I to look again, I should forget the Nightingale Gisar and cry out in ecstacy."

The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911

Now the Sultan's two sons knew that the Flower o 'the World was fated to marry the man who had stolen from her the Nightingale Gisar, so when they heard the Princess's demand they were overjoyed thinking that she would have to fall in love with one of them.

The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911