. More tales from the Arabian nights . Aboul Muzaffar, if thy apewill liberate us, we each will give him a thousand piecesof gold. The ape hearing this, immediately loosedtheir bonds. They hastened to the ship and embarked,and found all the merchandise safe. They immediately set sail, and continued theirvoyage; and each of them paid Aboul Muzaffar athousand pieces of gold, and thus a great sum of moneywas collected for the ape. They arrived at the city ofBalsora, and when they had landed Aboul Muzaffarinquired for Abou Mahomed the Lazy. My mother,hearing of it, came to me while I was lying asl
. More tales from the Arabian nights . Aboul Muzaffar, if thy apewill liberate us, we each will give him a thousand piecesof gold. The ape hearing this, immediately loosedtheir bonds. They hastened to the ship and embarked,and found all the merchandise safe. They immediately set sail, and continued theirvoyage; and each of them paid Aboul Muzaffar athousand pieces of gold, and thus a great sum of moneywas collected for the ape. They arrived at the city ofBalsora, and when they had landed Aboul Muzaffarinquired for Abou Mahomed the Lazy. My mother,hearing of it, came to me while I was lying asleep, andsaid: Arise, O my son, the sheikh Aboul Muzaffar iscome. Repair to him, and see what he hath bought forthee. Perhaps Allah (whose name be exalted!) hathblessed thee with good fortune. So I replied: Lift me up from the ground and sup-port me. She did so, and I walked stumbling alonguntil I came to the sheikh. When he beheld me he ex-claimed: Welcome to thee whose money saved mylife and liberated these merchants! Take this ape,. EVERY DAY THE APE RETURNED, BRINGING A THOUSAND PIECES OF GOLD The Marid-Ape 183 0 my son, for I bought him for thcc. Go to thy houseand wait there for me. I took the ape home, sayingto myself: Verily this is magnificent merchandise! 1 entered my house, and said to my mother: Everytime I lie down to sleep, and thou wishest me to get upto traffic, look at this costly merchandise! Then Isat down. While I was sitting, lo, the slaves of AboulMuzaffnr approached each carrying on his head a largechest. And behold Aboul Muzaffar came also and saidto me: O my son, Allah hath blessed thee with thewealth which is in these chests. Then he gave me thekeys of the chests and departed. And the slaves de-posited the chests in my house, and also departed. And when my mother saw my wealth she rejoicedand said: O my son, Allah hath blessed thee abun-dantly, so give over this laziness, and take a shop in themarket-street and sell and buy. Accordingly I left offbeing
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