Tales Told to a Melon

<p> </p><p>It all began with a little black seed - the seed of a watermelon.</p><p> </p><p>Yahya the self-styled 'Melon King' presented it to Tahir Shah urging him to plant it in the courtyard garden of his home the Caliph's House.</p><p> </p><p>The seed was duly planted watered and tended lovingly.</p><p> </p><p>Eventually it began to grow...</p><p> </p><p>First sprouting into a little green shoot then into the beginnings of a plant and at last giving birth to a watermelon.</p><p> </p><p>As the fruit grew and grew the Melon King imparted a line of secret advice: Tell stories to the melon... stories about melons.</p><p> </p><p>Uncertain what stories to recount Shah took to his desk and wrote a manuscript of tales to be told to the melon - a manuscript which with time became this book.</p><p> </p><p>In all probability the only book of stories ever written in awe and devotion to a melon <em>Tales Told to a Melon</em> is a work of the purest imagination...</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>...and affection for the finest melon that ever lived.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p><br></p>