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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 4 (of 6)

Note 44 — THE STORY OF THE THREE SHARPERS.[17]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In the text “Arghá” for “Arkhá” = he “brayed” (like an ostrich, etc.) for “his limbs relaxed.” It reminds one of the German missionary’s fond address to his flock “My prethren, let us bray!”

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