The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . Can an ape possess such fluency and such skill in caligraphy ?This is, indeed, a wonder of wonders —Afterwards, a chess-table wasbrought to the King, and he said to me, Wilt thou play? By amotion of my head I answered, Yes:—and I advanced, and arrangedthe I played with him twice, and beat him j and the Kingwas perplexed, and said, Were this a man, he would surpass all thepeople of his age. He then said to his eunuch, Go to thy mistress, and say to her,Answer the summons of the Ki
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . Can an ape possess such fluency and such skill in caligraphy ?This is, indeed, a wonder of wonders —Afterwards, a chess-table wasbrought to the King, and he said to me, Wilt thou play? By amotion of my head I answered, Yes:—and I advanced, and arrangedthe I played with him twice, and beat him j and the Kingwas perplexed, and said, Were this a man, he would surpass all thepeople of his age. He then said to his eunuch, Go to thy mistress, and say to her,Answer the summons of the King:—that she may come and gratifyher curiosity by the sight of this wonderful ape. The eunuch,there-fore, went, and returned with his mistress, the Kings daughter, who,as soon as she saw me, veiled her face, and said, cTmy father, how isit that thou art pleased to send for me, and suffer strange men to seeme.—0 my daughter, answered the King, there is no one here butthe young memlook, and the eunuch who brought thee up, and thisape, with myself, thy father: from whom, then, dost thou veil thy.
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