The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . hold my brothers son ! Will fortune,indeed, unite us with him ? But I look not for our union from anybut God, whose name be exalted !—And he instantly arose, and calledout to his male attendants, saying, Let twenty men of you go to theshop of the cook, and demolish it, and bind his hands behind him withhis turban, and drag him hither by force, but without any injury tohis person. They replied, Well. The Wezeer then rode immediatelyto the palace, and, presenting himself before the Viceroy o
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . hold my brothers son ! Will fortune,indeed, unite us with him ? But I look not for our union from anybut God, whose name be exalted !—And he instantly arose, and calledout to his male attendants, saying, Let twenty men of you go to theshop of the cook, and demolish it, and bind his hands behind him withhis turban, and drag him hither by force, but without any injury tohis person. They replied, Well. The Wezeer then rode immediatelyto the palace, and, presenting himself before the Viceroy of Damascus,shewed him the contents of the letters which he had brought from theSultan; and the Viceroy, after kissing them, put them to his head,and said, Who is thine offender ? He answered, A man who is bytrade a cook. And instantly the Viceroy ordered his Chamberlainsto repair to his shop; and they went thither ; but found it demolished,and everything that had been in it broken ; for when the Wezeer wentto the palace, his servants did as he had commanded them. They ,=-L—: Ml Is IN 4^-^M^^t^^,,. ,26S THE STOKY OP NOOR-ED-DEEX AND HIS SOX, were then waiting his return from the palace; and Bedr-ed-Deen wassaying within himself, What can they have discovered in the confec-tion, that such an event as this should have befallen me ? And whenthe Wezeer returned from the Viceroy, and had received his permissionto take his offender and to depart with him, he entered the encamp-ment, and called for the cook. They brought him, therefore, with hishands bound behind him with his turban ; and when he saw his unclehe wept bitterly, and said, 0 my master, what crime have ye found inme ? The Wezeer said to him, Art thou he who cooked the confectionof pomegranate-grains ? He answered, 1 es : and have ye found in itanything that requires ones head to be struck off? This, replied theWezeer, is the smallest part of thy recompense.—Wilt thou not, saidBedr-ed-Deen, acquaint me with my crime ?
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