When it was the Eight Hundred and Twenty-fifth Night； She resumed，It hath reached me，O auspicious King，that when Hasan and his wife，accompanied by the ancient dame Shawahi；fared forth from the palace，they made sure of deliverance and they walked on till they came without the city，when he fortified his heart and，smiting the earth with the rod，cried，'Ho，ye servants of these names，appear to me and acquaint me with your conditions！'Thereupon the earth clave asunder and out came ten[174] Ifrits，with their feet in the bowels of the earth and their heads in the clouds.They kissed the earth three times before Hasan and said as with one voice，'Adsumus！ Here are we at thy service，O our lord and ruler over us！ What dost thou bid us do？ For we hear and obey thy commandment.An thou wilt，we will dry thee up seas and remove mountains from their places.'So Hasan rejoiced in their words and at their speedy answer to his evocation then taking courage and bracing up his resolution，he said to them，'Who are ye and what be your names and your races；and to what tribes and clans and companies appertain ye？'They kissed the earth once more and answered as with one voice；saying，'We are seven Kings，each ruling over seven tribes of the Jinn of all conditions，and Satans and Marids，flyers and divers；dwellers in mountains and wastes and wolds and haunters of the seas： so bid us do whatso thou wilt；for we are thy servants and thy slaves，and whoso possesseth this rod hath dominion over an our necks and we owe him obedience.'Now when Hasan heard this；he rejoiced with joy exceeding，as did his wife and the old woman，and presently he said to the Kings of the Jinn，'I desire of you that ye show me your tribes and hosts and guards.''O our lord，'answered they，'if we show thee our tribes，we fear for thee and these who are with thee，for their name is legion and they are various in form and fashion，figure and favour.Some of us are heads sans bodies and others bodies sans heads，and others again are in the likeness of wild beasts and ravening lions.
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