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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 1 (of 6)

Note 454 — KING SHAH BAKHT AND HIS WAZIR AL-RAHWAN.[295] (continued 2)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

Normally used for fuel and at times by funny men to be put into sweetmeats by way of practical joke: these are called “Nukl-i-Pishkil” = goat-dung bonbons. The tale will remind old Anglo-Indians of the two Bengal officers who were great at such “sells” and who “swopped” a spavined horse for a broken-down “buggy.”

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