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

Note 73
THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI.

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Arab. meaning "the Mother of Amir," a nickname for the hyena, which bites the hand that feeds it.

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We wrought them weal, they met our weal with ill; * Such, by my life! is every bad man's labour: To him who benefits unworthy wights * Shall hap what inapt to Ummi Amir's neighbor.[FN#73]"

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Note 73THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI.

Note 73
THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI.