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

Note 651
The Barber’s Tale of his Third Brother.

Noting how sharp-eared the blind become.

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…d and they buried the rest in a corner of the room. Then they set on food and sat down, to eat. Presently my brother, hearing a strange pair of jaws munching by his side,[FN#651] said to his friends, "There is a stranger amongst us;" and, putting forth his hand, caught hold of that of the house master. Thereupon all fell on him and beat him;[FN#652] and when tired of belabouring him they shouted, "O ye Moslems! a thief is come…

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