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482 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

The fisher- and stones, but he was not able to kill them be-<br />

himseif in cause the water of Life made them to grow again;<br />

the^waterofj^Q^ when he perceived this he plunged himself<br />

into the water.<br />

And the fisherman came to <strong>Alexander</strong> and gave<br />

him the fish, and the king's servants took them,<br />

wishing to cook them; and they put them on the<br />

fire, but the fire was not able to cook them. And<br />

they told the king, who said, "Bring them here."<br />

And they laid the fish before the king who commanded<br />

his servants to cut up the fish with a<br />

knife; but they were not able to kill them for the<br />

fish came to life again straightway, and even when<br />

<strong>Alexander</strong> on the fire they continued to live. And <strong>Alexander</strong><br />

uiT fisher- asked the fisherman, saying, "Whence broughtest<br />

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"thou these fish.^" And he spake unto him saying,<br />

I man<br />

"I found them in a stream, the waters of which<br />

"were white, and I brought them here, for I could<br />

"not kill them". <strong>Alexander</strong> said unto him, "Dost<br />

"thou know where the stream is" ? And the fisherman<br />

said to him, "I do". And the king said unto<br />

him, "Let us go thither to-morrow morning to<br />

"see it and to dip ourselves in the water<br />

"thereof"; so they tarried that night, and in the<br />

morning the king rose up and called the fisherman<br />

to take him [to the stream! But the fishermissed<br />

the way, and the road to the water<br />

was ever distant before them, and the fisher-<br />

The fisher- man fled now to the right and now to the left,<br />

man de- 11 1 • 11 • r i i<br />

ceives A- and the kmg could not find him; and not the king<br />

only but all the king's army sought him, and found

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