STORY STORY OF THE LARRIKIN AND THE COOK" ONE of the ne'er do-wells found himself one fine morning...
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finger, and as the bite pained him, he cried "Oh!" and was vexed. And the Caliph watched him whence...
madman, but the Commander of the Faithful." And the superintendent answered him, saying, "None liet...
alabaster, Sumaki marble and mosaicwork. Then the slave led him into the treasury, which was full o...
villain, if ever again I see thee standing at the door of this dyery, I will forthwith send thee to...
loud-wailing the while: "O my lady, may thy head live and mayst thou survive Abu al-Hasan al-Khali'...
forthright to receive him and embraced and kissed him as though he were his own son. Then, seating ...
authority, yet camest thou not to me nor askest of me nor saidst, 'Where's my comrade?' For my part...
sooth, but tell me, whence hadst thou that ring?" "I found it in this fish's gills." "True," said t...
us. Bid him fare forth from before our face." Quoth Ja'afar: "By the claims of thy pious forefather...
THE LADY AND HER FIVE SUITORS A WOMAN of the daughters of the merchants was married to a man who w...
with my new master, who bought me with all he owned?" He replied, "O my lady, I gave him a thousand...
his affair. Then said the Wazir: "May Allah damn this woman for her dealing with us! She hath brou...
ABU KIR THE DYER AND ABU SIR THE BARBER THERE dwelt once, in Alexander city, two men, of whom one w...
KHALIFAH THE FISHERMAN OF BAGHDAD THERE was once in tides of yore and in ages and times long gone ...