Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Translations; The Discontented Dervishes; The Man who Became a Slave; A Buzzing in the Ear; The Conceited Astronomer; Removing the Rubbish; Why Do You Keep Him?; The King with the Twisted Neck; The Secret Letter; A Time To Pay Back; The Crafty Slave; The Boy who Smiled at Death; The Traveller's Tale; O King, Live For Ever!; The Good Lie; A Picture of an Enemy; King Darius and His Herdsman; King Kizil's Castle; The Old Woman's Cat; Food Fit for a King; Market Value; I Once Complained; The King and the Peasant; Sa'di the Slave; The Adventures of a Young Athlete.;The adventures of the old woman's cat, the fate of the ungrateful king with the twisted neck, the marvelous horse of Hatim Taim, the craftiness of the frightened fox and the boastful pupil who learned every lesson but one - wonderful, lyrical multi-faceted tales by Sa'di, the thirteenth century Persian story-teller, traveler and Royal Poet. Arthur Scholey has selected and retold seventy-four stories of the wisdom, humour and common-sense of kings, servants, lords, slaves and beggars, pupils and teachers, birds, beasts, insects and dervishes - holy, clever and foolish, as well as the two dis.