The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ? But he wept, and said, 0 mybrother, God, to whom be ascribed all might and glory, decreed thisevent; and there is no longer any profit in these words: I havenothing left. So I took him up into the shop, and then went withhim to the bath, and clad him in a costly suit of my own clothing;after which, we sat down together to eat; and I said to him, 0 mybrother, I will calculate the gain of my shop during the year, anddivide it, exclusive of the principal, between me and thee. Accord-ingly,
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . ? But he wept, and said, 0 mybrother, God, to whom be ascribed all might and glory, decreed thisevent; and there is no longer any profit in these words: I havenothing left. So I took him up into the shop, and then went withhim to the bath, and clad him in a costly suit of my own clothing;after which, we sat down together to eat; and I said to him, 0 mybrother, I will calculate the gain of my shop during the year, anddivide it, exclusive of the principal, between me and thee. Accord-ingly, I made the calculation, and found my gain to amount to twothousand pieces of gold; and I praised God, to whom be ascribed allmight and glory, and rejoiced exceedingly, and divided the gain in twoequal parts between myself and him.—My other brother then set forthon a journey; and after a year, returned in the like condition; andI did unto him as I had done to the former. After this, when we had lived together for some time, my brothersagain wished to travel, and were desirous that I should accompany. them ; but I would not. What, said I, have ye gained in your travels, that I should expect to gain ? They importuned me ; but I would not comply with their request; and we remained selling and buying in our shops a whole year. Still, however, they persevered in proposing that we should travel, and I still refused, until after the lapse of six entire years, when at last I consented, and said to them, 0 my brothers, let us calculate what property we possess. We did so, and found it to be six thousand pieces of gold : and I then said to them, We will bury half of it in the earth, that it may be of service to us if any misfortune befall us, in which case each of us shall take a thousand pieces, with which to Excellent is thy advice, said they. So I took the money and divided it into two equal portions, and buried three thousand pieces of gold; and of the other half, I gave
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