Note 438 — ALI NUR AL-DIN AND MIRIAM THE GIRDLE-GIRL.[376]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
For an incident like this see my Pilgrimage (vol. i. 176). How true to nature the whole scene is; the fond mother excusing her boy and the practical father putting the excuse aside. European paternity, however, would probably exclaim, “The beast’s in liquor!”