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by (Anne Stephens) Khadeijah A. Darwish

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Sultan Idris and his army were out riding together on a training exercise.
Sometimes, the sultan liked to ride by himself and this time he had ridden on
ahead of his men.

As he rode a little way off, he caught sight of an old woodcutter walking
beside his donkey laden with thorny firewood. Before the sultan reached the
old woodcutter the poor old donkey stumbled and fell, and as it did its thorny
load fell from his back and landed on top of the poor old woodcutter and
scratched him.

When Sultan Idris saw what had happened he rode quickly up to the old