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

Note 91 — THE STORY OF THE THREE SHARPERS.[17]

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

The MS., I have said, always writes “Khwájá” instead of “Khwájah” (plur. “Khwáját”): for this word, the modern Egyptian “Howájah,” see vol. vi. 46. Here it corresponds with our “goodman.”

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