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

Note 621
Tale of the Tailor.

Arab. "Ballán" i.e. the body-servant: "Ballánah" is a tire-woman.

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…chandler; and Silat the bean-seller; and Akrashah the greengrocer; and Humayd the scavenger; and Sa'id the camel-man; and Suwayd the porter; and Abu Makarish the bathman;[FN#621] and Kasim the watchman; and Karim the groom. There is not among the whole of them a bore or a bully in his cups; nor a meddler nor a miser of his money, and each and every hath some dance which he danceth and some of his own couplets which he caroleth…

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