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

Note 620
Tale of the Tailor.

Anonymous

We say:—

Tis rare the father in the son we see: He sometimes rises in the third degree.

ITS PLACE IN THE BOOK

"The boy like his father shall surely show, * As the tree from its parent root shall grow."[FN#620]

Note 620Tale of the Tailor.