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

Note 272
The Third Kalandar’s Tale.

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We should say "the night of the thirty-ninth."

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…, I will not slay him." I ceased not ministering to him and conversing and carousing with him and telling him all manner tales for thirty nine days. On the fortieth night[FN#272] the youth rejoiced and said, "O my brother, Alhamdo, lillah!—praise be to Allah—who hath preserved me from death and this is by thy blessing and the blessing of thy coming to me and I pray God that He restore thee to thy native land. But now, O my bro…

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Note 272The Third Kalandar’s Tale.

Note 272
The Third Kalandar’s Tale.