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

Note 213
The Second Kalandar’s Tale.

The Calc. Edit. turns them into Tailors (Khayyátín) and Torrens does not see the misprint.

ITS PLACE IN THE BOOK

…to me and said, "O youth, in the shop there is an old man, a Persian,[FN#212] who seeketh thee: he hath thy hatchet and thy sandals which he had taken to the woodcutters,[FN#213] saying, "I was going out at what time the Mu'azzin began the call to dawn prayer, when I chanced upon these things and know not whose they are; so direct me to their owner." The woodcutters recognised thy hatchet and directed him to thee: he is sittin…

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