Note 136 — THE TALE OF THE BIRDS AND BEASTS AND THE CARPENTER.[130]
Richard Francis Burton translation
The English reader will not forget Sterne's old mare. Even Al-Hariri, the prince of Arab rhetoricians, does not disdain to use "pepedit," the effect being put for the cause—terror. But Mr. Preston (p. 285) and polite men translate by "fled in haste" the Arabic "farted for fear."