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"What?" the genie cried incredulously. "Fool! You saw with
your own eyes."

"It's hard to believe this vase could contain even the smallest
portion of such a massive being as you. I cannot believe such
a thing. It is impossible," declared the fisherman.

"How dare you!" cried the genie, shaking with fury.

"No, I do not believe your story," said the fisherman, and it
seemed the genie would explode with rage.

"Then you shall see once more!" he roared, and he began
to transform again into smoke. Just as he had begun, he
spread out over sea and shore, and like a swirling tornado,
he twisted himself into a spinning mass, tighter and tighter
until, inch by inch, he slid back into the vase. "There!" he
bellowed from inside, his voice echoing. "Do you believe
me now?"

"I do!" the fisherman said, but as he spoke he plugged the
vase. "And now, genie," he said, "I shall toss you back into
the sea, and I will leave a warning to all fishermen who
cast their nets here: Never open a copper vase you find
in these waters."

"You tricked me!" the genie cried, his voice sounding weak
and tearful. "Take off the lid, and I promise not to harm you.
I will repay you with tremendous wealth."

The fisherman shook his head and said, "I cannot trust you, I'm
afraid, for I know stories of traitors, too, and I will tell you one."
And so he did, and as he told it, he tossed the vase into the
sea where, people say, it remains all these centuries later.

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