Note 506
THE HUNCHBACK’S TALE.
This is still a popular form of the "Kinchin lay," and as the turbands are often of fine stuff, the petite industrie pays well.
…o make water[FN#505] over against him; when he happened to glance around and saw a man standing against the wall. Now some person had snatched off the Christian's turband[FN#506] in the first of the night; so when he saw the Hunchback hard by he fancied that he also meant to steal his headdress. Thereupon he clenched his fist and struck him on the neck, felling him to the ground, and called aloud to the watchman of the bazar, …
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