Rachel Harriette Busk

Name: Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian traditionary tales — Tale XVIII.
Author: Rachel Harriette Busk

Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian traditionary tales… (1873)

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“Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian traditionary tales — Tale XVIII.”, published in 1873, is a work by Rachel Harriette Busk. It explores elements such as Shanggasba, dæmons and silk.

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Rachel Harriette Busk, Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian traditionary tales… (1873)

“ All this the Queen commanded should be given to him; and he went out to seek for the great fox measuring nine spans in length, and the fur of his back striped with stripes.
Many days he wandered over the mountains till his provisions were all used and his clothes torn, and, what was a worse evil, he had lost his bow by the way.
"Without a bow I can do nothing," reasoned Shanggasba to himself, "even though I fall in with the fox. It is of no use that I wait for death here. I had better return to the palace and see what fortune does for me." ”

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Rachel Harriette Busk, Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian traditionary tales… (1873)

“ Shall a princess now marry a beggar?"
"If thou wilt not have him, what manner of man wouldst thou marry?" asked the King.
"A man who has gold and precious things enough that he should carry silk stuff [3] in his boots, such a one would I marry, and not a wayfarer and a beggar," answered the Princess.
When the people heard that, they went and pulled off Shanggasba's boots, and when they found in them the pieces of silk he had taken from the image of the garuda-bird, they all marvelled, and said never a word more. ”

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Rachel Harriette Busk, Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian traditionary tales… (1873)

“ He can do us no harm. A beggar may sue for a king's daughter, and a king may choose a beggar's daughter, out of that no harm can come," and he ordered that he should be taken care of in the palace, and not let to go forth.
Now all this was told to the Queen, who took a very different view of the thing from the King's. And coming to him in fury and indignation, she cried out,—
"It is not good for such a man to live. He must be already deprived of his senses; let him die the death!" ”

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Rachel Harriette Busk, Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian traditionary tales… (1873)

“ Tell me, now, hast thou great treasures to endow her with as thy name would import, or wilt thou win thy right to pay court to her by thy valour and bravery?" And this she said, for she thought within herself, of a surety now the man is so poor he can offer no dowry, and so he needs must elect to win her by the might of his bravery, which if he do I shall know how to over-match his strength, and show he is but a mean-spirited wretch.
But Shanggasba made answer, "Of a truth, though I be called 'Renowned possessor of treasure,' no treasure have I to endow her with ”

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Rachel Harriette Busk, Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian traditionary tales… (1873)

“ Though they were the poorest of men without any thing in the world to call their own, and without even possessing the knowledge of any trade or handicraft whereby to make a livelihood to support them at ease, they were yet called by the name of Shanggasba, that is "Renowned possessor of treasure [1] ." ”

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Rachel Harriette Busk, Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian traditionary tales… (1873)

“ The King was so pleased that the seven dæmons were slain, that he would not let him be put on his trial any more. So he delivered the Princess to him, and he became the King's son-in-law. Moreover, he gave him a portion like to the portion of a King's son, and erected a throne for him as high as his own throne, and appointed to him half his kingdom, and made all his subjects pay him homage as to himself. ”

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Rachel Harriette Busk, Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian traditionary tales… (1873)

“ But the Queen, though her first scheme for delivering her daughter had failed, was not slow to devise another, and she said, "It is not enough that he should be valiant in the field, but a mighty hunter must he also be." ”

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Rachel Harriette Busk, Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian traditionary tales… (1873)

“ Vopiscus, in his life of the Emperor Aurelian, tells us that at that time a pound weight of silk was worth a pound weight of gold. In India itself the luxurious use of silk has restrictions put upon it in the Manu. It was also prescribed that when men devoted themselves to the hermit life in the jungle, they should lay aside their silken clothing ”

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