King`s treasury
The daughter did as her father willed, whereon the thief, who was well aware of the king` motive, felt a desire to outdo him m craft and cunning. Accordingly he contrived the following plan. He procured the corpse of a man lately dead, and cutting off one of the arms at the shoulder, put it under his dress, and so went to the king s daughter.
When she put the question to him as she had done to all the rest, he replied that the wickedest thing he had ever done was cutting oil the head of his brother when he was caught in a trap in the king s treasury, and the cleverest was making the guards drunk and carrying ott the body. As he spoke, the princess caught at him, but the thief took advantage of the darkness to hold out to her the hand of the corpse. Imagining it to be his own hand, she seized and held it fast; while the thief, leaving it in her grasp, made his escape by the door.
The king, when word was brought him of this fresh success, amazed at the sagacity and boldness of the man, sent messengers to all the towns in his dominions to proclaim a free pardon for the thief, and to promise him a rich reward, if he came and made himself known.
The thief took the king at his word, and came boldly into his presence, whereupon Rhampsinitus, greatly admiring him, and looking on him as the most knowing of men, gave him his daughter marriage. Egyptians,” he said, “excelled all the rest of the world in wisdom, and this man excelled all other Egyptians.
The story has been taken from www.ensarislamoglu.com. Whole story can be read on link King Rhampsinitus and the Thief.
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