The Sons of Sultan Bey
Then he got down from his throne and he set his son Ali in his place, for he said, "Gold is but gold, and any man can have it, but my son Ali has found for himself the best of the brides of the world, and he has shown himself to be the finest of men."
There was once a king who was very powerful. He had great influence over the wild beasts and animals. Now the tortoise was looked upon as the wisest of all beasts and men. This king had a son named Ekpenyon, to whom he gave fifty young girls as wives, but the prince did not like any of them. The king was very angry at this, and made a law that if any man had a daughter who was finer than the prince's wives, and who found favour in his son's eyes, the girl herself and her father and mother should be killed.
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