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

Note 172 — ILLITERATE WHO SET UP FOR A SCHOOLMASTER.

Richard Francis Burton translation

The custom (growing obsolete in Egypt) is preserved in Afghanistan where the learned wear turbans equal to the canoe-hats of the Spanish cardinals.

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