Note 115 — HASSAN OR THE CHILD OF THE PYRAMID (continued 7)

Alluding to a popular tale, in which four or five women, wives of a bakkal or grocer, came before the câdi to make a complaint against their husband. They stormed and scolded all at once, and made such a din in the court that not a word could be heard or understood. When at length they stopped for want of breath, the câdi dismissed the case, saying, “There is no crime of which the man can have been guilty that is not sufficiently punished by his having those women for wives.”