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

Note 279 — THE PILGRIM MAN AND THE OLD WOMAN.

Richard Francis Burton translation

The story is mere Æsopic: the “Two dogs” contains it all. One of Mohammed’s sensible sayings is recorded and deserves repetition:—“Empire endureth with infidelity (idolatry, etc.), but not with tyranny.”

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