Tiger In The Street

Turning Point V

      "Listen to the folktales y'all dickheads wrote."

      That was Brad. Heaven knew what had gotten into him.

      "I'll read all subsequently. 30 at a go!! No break!"

    . He was already on it.

      "There was once a Padishah who had no children. When out walking one

day he saw a dragon accompanied by five or six young ones.

‘‘Oh, my Allah!’’ he complained, ‘‘Thou hast blessed this creature

with so much offspring. Would that this dragon had one less, and that Thou

hadst given me one child!’’ He continued his walk until it began to get dark,

and then returned to the serai. Time passed, until one night the Sultan’s wife