The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 474
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

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The usual Cairene "chaff."

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…e or his." Said the unsexed, "I will." So on the instant she gave him a saucer and a half dinar and he returned to the shop and said to the cook, "O Shaykh of all Cooks, [FN#474] we have laid a wager concerning thy cookery in my lord's house, for they have conserve of pomegranate-grains there also; so give me this half-dinar's worth and look to it; for I have eaten a full meal of stick on account of thy cookery, and so do not …

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Note 474TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)

Note 474
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON. (continued 2)