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

Note 682
The Barber’s Tale of his Fifth Brother.

A naïve proposal to share the plunder.

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…first to last with the old woman and the flight of the damsel; ending with, "Whatso I have taken, take of it what thou wilt, so thou leave me sufficient to support life."[FN#682] But the Governor took the whole of the stuffs and all the money for himself; and, fearing lest the affair come to the Sultan's ears, he summoned my brother and said, "Depart from this city, else I will hang thee." "Hearing and obedience" quoth my brot…

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