'These two black dogs are your sisters, whom I have transformed
into this shape. But this punishment is not sufficient; for I will
have you treat them after such a manner as I shall direct.'
At those words the fairy took me fast under one of her arms, and
the two dogs in the other, and carried me to my house in Bagdad,
where I found in my storehouses all the riches which were laden on
board my vessel. Before she left me she delivered the two dogs, and
told me, 'If you will not be changed into a dog as they are, I
order you to give each of your sisters every night a hundred lashes
with a rod, for the punishment of the crime they have committed
against your person and the young prince whom they drowned.' I was
forced to promise that I would obey her order. For many months I
whipped them every night, though with regret. I gave evidence by my
tears with how much sorrow and reluctance I must perform this cruel
duty.
Now the fairy had left with me a bundle of hair, saying withal that
her presence would one day be of use to me; and then, if I only
burnt two tufts of this hair, she would be with me in a moment,
though she were beyond Mount Caucasus.
Desirous at length to see the fairy and beg her to restore the two
black dogs, my sisters, to their proper shape, I caused fire one
day to be brought in, and threw the whole bundle of hair into it.
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