Note 273 — APPENDIX.

In another Persian version, translated by Jonathan Scott, in his Tales, Anecdotes, and Letters from the Arabic and Persian, p. 253, the prince happens to see the merchant’s wife in her litter, returning from the pilgrimage to Makka, and falls desperately in love with her. He afterwards makes the acquaintance of the merchant, who on learning the cause of his illness divorces his wife and makes her over to the prince. The rest of the story is much the same as the above, excepting that the prince does not put the merchant’s “luck” to trial but at once receives him heartily and restores to him his wife, whom he had adopted as his sister.