As soon as the old woman entered again into her house, the disguised Sultan advised her and her neighbours to join in a petition, and present it to the Sultan in his divan.
"A petition!" answered the old woman, "and for what?"
"To relieve your distresses," said Misnar.
"Alas! who is to relieve our distresses but Allah?" said the woman.
"Your Sultan, the servant of Allah, will relieve them," replied Misnar.
"What!" answered the old woman; "can he restore to these arms my dutiful first-born, who has been so long the joy of my aged heart, but was lately torn from me to fill up the armies of the Sultan? Can he call back the brave men he has caused to be destroyed, and give life and spirits and joy again to the widows and orphans of India? If he can, oh! let him hasten to relieve the affli
