Panch-Phul

When they returned, they said to their mistress, "Your child did not die; see, here it is -- it got well again," and showed her Panch-Phul

Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896

It happened that that very day the Ranee (Panch-Phul Ranee's husband's mother) lost her youngest child, a fine little boy of only a day old; and her servants took its body to the bottom of the garden to bury it.

Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896

Carpenter's daughter back with him (riding through the air on two of the wooden parrots, and followed by the rest) to the Panch-Phul

Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896

So the Malee's wife buried the dead child and took the Panch-Phul

Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896

The Rajah answered, "The Panch-Phul Ranee still lives in the house surrounded by the seven ditches, and seven hedges made of spears, and has vowed to marry no man who cannot jump over them; but cannot you parrots, who brought me all the way over the seven seas, carry me on your wings across these great barriers?"

Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896

Rajah and Ranee who had one lovely daughter, named Panch-Phul Ranee

Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896

The Ranee, Panch-Phul Ranee's mother, cried bitterly at this, for she was very fond of her daughter, and she begged her husband not to send her away so cruelly -- the living with the dead; but the Rajah was inexorable.

Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896

(Now, all this conversation had been heard by Panch-Phul

Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896

The Rajah answered, "Go and tell your master that this is Panch-Phul

Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896