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

Note 448
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN AND HIS SON.

Arab. Al-Aríf; the tutor, the assistant-master.

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… abuse them and bash them and thrash them and say, "Who among you is like me? I am the son of Wazir of Egypt!" At last the boys came in a body to complain to the Monitor [FN#448] of what hard usage they were wont to have from Ajib, and he said to them, "I will tell you somewhat you may do to him so that he shall leave off coming to the school, and it is this. When he enters to-morrow, sit ye down about him and say some one of …

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