The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . nd went with her to the burial-ground; and when we had sat therea short time, my cousin came, bearing a basin of water, and a bagcontaining some plaster, and a small adze. Going to a tomb in themidst of the burial-ground, he took the adze, and disunited the stones,which he placed on one side ; he then dug up the earth with the adze,and uncovered a fiat stone, of the size of a small door, under whichthere appeared a vaulted staircase. Having done this he made asign to the woman, and said to
The thousand and one nights (Volume 1): commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments . nd went with her to the burial-ground; and when we had sat therea short time, my cousin came, bearing a basin of water, and a bagcontaining some plaster, and a small adze. Going to a tomb in themidst of the burial-ground, he took the adze, and disunited the stones,which he placed on one side ; he then dug up the earth with the adze,and uncovered a fiat stone, of the size of a small door, under whichthere appeared a vaulted staircase. Having done this he made asign to the woman, and said to her, Do according to thy choice:—whereupon she descended the stairs. He then looked towards me,and said, 0 son of my uncle, complete thy kindness when I havedescended into this place, by replacing the trap-door and the earthabove it as they were before : then, this plaster which is in the bag,and this water which is in the basin, do thou knead together, andplaster the stones of the tomb as they were, so that no man may knowit, and say, This hath been lately opened, but its interior is old :—for,. iflRfp during the space of a whole year I have been preparing this, and noone knew it but God : this is what I would have thee do. He thensaid to me, May God never deprive thy friends of thy presence, 0 sonof my uncle !—and, having uttered these words, he descended thestairs. When he had disappeared from before my eyes, I replaced thetrap-door, and busied myself with doing as he had ordered me, untilthe tomb was restored to the state in which it was at first; after whichI returned to the palace of my uncle, who was then absent on a hunt-ing excursion. I slept that night, and when the morning came, Ireflected upon what had occurred between me and my cousin, andrepented of what I had done for him, when repentance was of no then went out to the burial-ground, and searched for the tomb ; butcould not discover it. I ceased not in my search until the approachof night; and, not
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