Everyone in the kingdom was rejoicing in the arrival of their Prince.
That was when Labakan took the little box and left the castle. He was careful not to be seen by anyone. Other than the ivory box there was nothing else to show that he belonged to this place.
Labakan rode on to his old master's shop.
However, when the master and the others saw him, they all were angry with him and fell on him with blows.
Labakan fell unconscious as all of the workmen beat him up. After Labakan gained consciousness, the master then scolded Labakan for stealing the king’s brother’s robes. The master said that the king had been furious with his brother's lost robe and the master would never forgive Labakan for it.
Labakan had no choice but he mounted on Murva again and drove to an inn in the neighbouring Kingdom.
Here he found a quiet place where he rested his tired and bruised limbs.
The next morning he sold his little ivory box to a jeweler for a good price and bought a house and opened a workshop with the money. He hung up the sign of ‘Labakan Tailor’ over the door.
He started mending his own torn clothes with the very needle that had been in the ivory box.
What stunned Labakan was that the needle finished the stitching by itself and the needle even made neat little stitches that Labakan had never been able to do in his entire life.
Soon Labakan got plenty of customers and the new kingdom. He used to cut out the cloth, make the first stitch with the magic needle and then leave the needle to do the rest.
Before long, the whole town went to him because his work was both cheap and good.
The only puzzle to everyone else was how Labakan could do all this by himself because Labakan employed no one else in his shop.
Finally, Labakan became the best tailor of the kingdom and he became very wealthy.
So the promise of the ivory box of wealth and happiness came true from him too.
Adapted from Egyptian Folk Tales
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