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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 (of 10)

Note 331 — ABU AL-HUSN AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL TAWADDUD.[281]

Richard Francis Burton translation

i.e. at a profit: the exchange must be equal—an ordinance intended to protect the poor. Arabs have strange prejudices in these matters; for instance it disgraces a Badawi to take money for milk.

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