opinion, I confess to thee that both the building and the parterres are finished and furnished to perfection; and the belongings are in the best of taste and in the highest of ordinance. Still to my thinking there be three things here wanting, which if thou hadst the place would be most complete.” The Princess Perizadah adjured her saying, “O my aunt, I beseech thee tell me what three articles yet are lacking, that I may lose nor pains nor toil to obtain them;” and, as the maiden pressed her with much entreaty, the devotee was constrained to tell her. Quoth she, “O gentle lady, the first thing is the Speaking-Bird, called Bulbul-i-hazár-dástán;[110] he is very rare and hard to find but, whenever he poureth out his melodious notes, thousands of birds fly to him from every side and join him in his harmony. The next thing is the Singing-Tree, whose smooth and glossy leaves when shaken by the wind and rubbed one against other send forth tuneful tones which strike the ear like the notes of sweet-voiced minstrels, ravishing the hearts of all who listen. The third thing is the Golden-Water of transparent purity, whereof should but one drop be dripped into a basin and this be placed inside the garden it presently will fill the vessel brimful and will spout upwards in gerbes playing like a fountain that jets: moreover it never ceaseth plying, and all the water as it shooteth up falleth back again inside the basin, not one gout thereof being lost.” Replied the Princess, “I doubt not but thou knowest for a certainty the very spot where these wondrous things are to be found; and I pray thee tell me now the place and means whereby I may take action to obtain them.”——And as the morn began to dawn Shahrazad held her peace till The end of the Six Hundred and Seventy-third Night.