When Tiidu began to play his pipes, the music notes were heard all throughout the island and even beyond it.
There was a group of sailors on a boat on the way to the island at that time. The sailors thought that the island was uninhabited and they were surprised to hear the music there.
The sailors went to the place and found Tiidu. Tiidu told the others the story of his shipwreck.
The captain had Tiidu come on board and promised to take him back to Kungla.
In return Tiidu played his pipes for the captain and the other sailors.
Tidu also took his woven baskets with nuts and apples on board the ship.
Naturally on returning to Kungla, Tiidu played his music first and made his money.
After that Tiidu disguised himself and took the small basket of apples and went all over the kingdom especially to the palace.
The royal servant bought all the apples from him.
After that Tiidu ran away from there, making sure that nobody could know that it was him.
Next morning the royal family was very upset because after eating the apples from a stranger all of them had a very strange sickness which they did not talk about.
The most famous doctors and magicians were called to the Palace but none of them could solve the issue.
The king heard about a man who lived in an inn in the palace and the man claimed that he could cure all sorts of diseases.
Tiidu was the man and he was disguised and living in this inn.
He expected the summons and he went to the palace and there he gave the royal family the nuts that he had got from the island.
The king and the others were very happy.
In fact the king was so happy that he would have given half of his Kingdom to Tiidu.
However Tiidu was not that greedy as he had been before he had been shipwrecked.
He got enough to buy a small estate and live comfortably.
Even after that Tiidu went to the Royal Palace and played his pipes for the people in the kingdom.
Tiidu then went to his home and this time the weather was fine throughout.
He was able to come back home and give his family also a life of riches and they all left happily ever after, Tiidu still playing his pipes as and when he was requested to.
Adapted from Andrew Lang’s Fairy Tales
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