V. How Bird-of-Gold Went to the Top of the Tower

Long did it take Eean to tell me the whole of the story, and when he had told and I had gathered and put together all of it, I said to him, "Not yet has the tower fallen, and ere it comes down one might go to the top and take the Magic Mirror of the Babylonians and put it in the hands of the King."

"The King may be dead," Eean said, "or else