Note 94 — THE STORY OF THE THREE SHARPERS.[17]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
This incident has already occurred in the tale of the Portress (Second Lady of Baghdad, vol. i. 179), but here the consequences are not so tragical. In Chavis the vulgar cock becomes “a golden Censer ornamented with diamonds, to be sold for two thousand sequins” (each = 9 shill.).