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Dodo Dreier 
Dec. 8, 1884

The Wise Sultan.

As the Sultan was walking to church one day, a poor man came up to him, asking if he believed in the great Prophet; the Sultan, being a good man, said yes; the poor man went on saying that the Prophet has said in the Koran that every one was [[strikethrough]]a [[/strikethrough]] brother every man is a brother and asked him if he would not share his property with him.

The sultan thinking it a queer way to ask for alms, gave him a silver thaler which the man turned

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