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

The Story of the Broke-Back Schoolmaster.134

Richard Francis Burton translation

The Story of the Broke-Back Schoolmaster.134

I began life, O King of the Age, as a Schoolmaster and my case was wondrous.?And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and fell silent and ceased saying her permitted say. Then quoth her sister Dunyazad, "How sweet and tasteful is thy tale, O sister mine, and enjoyable and delectable!" Quoth she, "And where is this compared with that I would relate to you on the coming night an the Sovran suffer me to survive?" Now when it was the next night and that was

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