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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 (of 10)

Note 311 — ALI SHAR[254] AND ZUMURRUD.

Richard Francis Burton translation

His hand was like a raven’s because he ate with thumb and two fingers and it came up with the rice about it like a camel’s hoof in dirty ground. This refers to the proverb (Burckhardt, 756), “He comes down a crow-claw (small) and comes up a camel-hoof (huge and round).”

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