Note 281 — APPENDIX. (continued 2)

Radloff’s Proben der Volksliteratur der Türkischen Stamme des Süd-Siberiens; St. Petersburg: 1870; iii, 389.—The story is also found in the Hebrew Talmud: Two slaves are overheard by their master conversing about a camel that had preceded them on the road. It was blind of an eye, and laden with two skin bottles, one of which contained wine, the other oil. (Hershon’s Talmudic Miscellany.)—See also M. Zotenberg’s Chronique de Tabari, t. ii, 357-361.