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Title: A plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights' entertainments now entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890
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Publisher: (s.l.) : Printed by the Burton Club for private subscribers only
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f the Kings of the West. Then the Maghribi laid thesaddle-bags before him, and, putting in his hand, pulled out dishafter dish, till they had before them a tray of forty kinds of meat,when he said to Judar, Come near, O my master ! eat and excuse as -^ And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say. She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that theMaghribi having served up in the pavilion a tray of forty kindsof meat, said to Judar, Come near, O my master, and excuse usfor that we know not what meats thou desirest; but tell us whatthou hast a mind to, and we will set it before thee without delay.Replied Judar, By Allah, O my lord the pilgrim, I love all kindsof meat and unlove none; so ask me not of aught, but bring all * Equivalent to our puritanical Mercy. * Arab. Bukjah, from the Persian Bukcheh: a favourite way of keeping fineclothes in the East is to lay them folded in a piece of rough long-cloth with pepper andspices to drive away moths.
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Judar and his Brethren. 227 that Cometh to thy thought, for save eating to do I have nought.After this he tarried twenty days with the Moor, who clad him in newclothes every day, and all this time they ate from the saddle-bags;for the Maghribi bought neither meat nor bread nor aught else, norcooked, but brought everything out of the bags, even to varioussorts of fruit. On the twenty-first day, he said, O Judar, upwith thee ; this is the day appointed for opening the hoard of Al-Shamardal. So he rose and they went afoot without the city,where they found two slaves, each holding a she-mule. The Moormounted one beast and Judar the other, and they ceased not ridingtill noon, when they came to a stream of running water, on whosebanks Abd al-Samad alighted saying, Dismount, O Judar! *Then he signed with his hand to the slaves and said, To it!So they took the mules and going each his own way, were absentawhile, after which they returned, one bearing a tent, which hepitched, and the other car

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