Note 300 — APPENDIX. (continued 3)

The self-same story also occurs in the Calcutta printed Arabic text of the ‘Thousand and One Nights,’ with no variation save that instead of smoked eels the husband gives his wanton wife a fresh fish to cook for his dinner on a Friday (the Muslim Sabbath), and then goes out. When the woman returns on the next Friday her husband begins to scold her, but she makes an outcry which brings in the neighbours, and showing them the fish still alive—she had, I suppose, either kept it in water or procured another one; though, how her husband came to give her a live fish does not appear—he is considered mad and loaded with fetters. (See Sir R. F. Burton’s translation, vol v, p. 96.)