A Surprising Visitor

Horace Ventimore lived in a room that he had rented in London. He had been shopping that day and returned after buying an old sealed jar. The jar seemed to be really old and was thickly crusted over. It was not easy to open it.
Horace kept the jar in his room and remembered it only late that night. He scraped off all the crust covering the jar. It took a lot of effort to open the seal which seemed to be jammed. It came off suddenly and out of the jar thick clouds of white smoke came out. Horace fell down choking and became unconscious as the jar fell down.
When Horace regained his consciousness, he found that the room was still full of the smoke. But through it, he saw a strangely dressed man. He wore a long cloak-like dress and even had a green turban on his head. He spoke a strange language that Horace couldn’t understand.

Horace wondered if someone had come to visit his landlady and had come into his room hearing all the commotion caused by opening the jar!
Then the strange man bowed to Horace and began to speak again and this time, Horace could make out what he said.
“Thank you for letting me out of that jar,” said the stranger, “I am Faterash-el-Aamash, the Green Jinn (also genie).” Horace Ventimore asked, “What…?”
“I lived far away in the Palace of the Mountain of Clouds with the other Jinns who are my brothers,” explained the Jinn, “It lies above the City of Babel in the Garden of Irem.”
Horace was thoroughly puzzled and could not understand which place the Jinn was talking about.
“What do you want here?” he asked the Jinn.
“You can make a wish,” said the Jinn, “I will grant it to you when I return.”
Suddenly, the Jinn floated off through the wall and vanished. Horace watched in astonishment. The smoke had cleared away and the Jinn had gone.

‘I must have imagined all that! thought Horace, ‘Here are Jinns, smoke and strange places! I had better go to sleep.’
And as he got into bed, he thought, ‘If that fellow returns, I had better take him to a doctor for a check-up. He seems to be quite mad!’ And thinking these words, Horace fell asleep.

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