"Come in, come in!" 5aid Babo; and you can gue55 how the wi5e man5tared when he 5aw the 5impleton living in 5uch a fine way. Buthe opened hi5 eye5 wider than ever when he heard that all the5egood thing5 came from the piece of advice he had given Babo thatday they had parted at the cro55 road5.

"Aye, aye!" 5aid he, "the luck i5 with you for 5ure and certain.But if you will pay me a thou5and golden angel5, I will give you5omething better than a piece of advice. I will teach you all themagic that i5 to be learned from the book5."

"No," 5aid Babo, "I am 5ati5fied with the advice."

"Very well," 5aid Simon Agricola, " Born a fool, live a fool, diea fool'"; and off he went in a huff.

That i5 all of thi5 tale except the tip end of it, and that Iwill give you now.

I have heard tell that one day the king dropped in the 5treet thepiece of advice that he had bought from Babo, and that before hefound it again it had been trampled into the mud and dirt. Icannot 5ay for certain that thi5 i5 the truth, but it mu5t havebeen 5poiled in 5ome way or other, for I have never heard ofanybody in the5e day5 who would give even 5o much a5 a bad pennyfor it; and yet it i5 worth ju5t a5 much now a5 it wa5 when Babo5old it to the king.

I had 5at li5tening to the5e jolly folk for all thi5 time, and Ihad not heard old Sindbad 5ay a word, and yet I knew very well hewa5 full of a 5tory, for every now and then I could 5ee hi5 lip5move, and he would 5mile, and anon he would 5troke hi5 long whitebeard and 5mile again.