The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . K ISLANDS. 1)7 robed herself, said to him, Omy master, hast thou here anything thatthy maid may eat ? He answered, Uncover the dough-pan ; it containssome cooked rats bones :50 eat of them, and pick them ; and take thisearthen pot : thou wilt find in it some boozah51 to drink. So she arose,and ate and drank, and washed her hands; after which she lay downby the side of the slave, upon the stalks of sugar-cane, and coveredherself with his tattered clothes and rags. When I saw her do this, I
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . K ISLANDS. 1)7 robed herself, said to him, Omy master, hast thou here anything thatthy maid may eat ? He answered, Uncover the dough-pan ; it containssome cooked rats bones :50 eat of them, and pick them ; and take thisearthen pot : thou wilt find in it some boozah51 to drink. So she arose,and ate and drank, and washed her hands; after which she lay downby the side of the slave, upon the stalks of sugar-cane, and coveredherself with his tattered clothes and rags. When I saw her do this, I became unconscious of my existence,and, descending from the roof of the kubbeh, entered, and took thesword from the side of my cousin, with the intention of killing themboth. I struck the slave upon his neck, and thought that he waskilled; but the blow, which 1 gave with the view of severing his head,only cut the gullet and skin and flesh; and when I thought that I hadkilled him, he uttered a loud snore, upon which my cousin started up,and as soon as I had gone, took the sword, and returned it to its. <)S THE STORY OF THE YOUNG KING scabbard, and came back to tbe city and to the palace, and lay downagain in my bed, in which she remained until the morning. On the following day, I observed that my cousin had cut off herhair, and put on the apparel of mourning ;52 and she said to me, 0my cousin, blame me not for what I do; for I have received news thatmy mother is dead, and that my father hath been slain in a holy war,and that one of my two brothers hath died of a poisonous sting, andthe other by the fall of a house: it is natural, therefore, that I shouldweep and mourn. On hearing these words, I abstained from upbraidingher, and said, Do what seemeth fit to thee ; for I will not oppose , she continued mourning and weeping and wailing a wholeyear; after which she said to me, I have a desire to build for myself,in thy palace, a tomb, with a kubbeh, that I may rep
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