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Said the third, “Have you finished?” “Yes,” he replied. 
The third then said, “I was with Ba Dahvi,! and the Autumn passed 
a there being any flowers for the bees. Then ¢ e bees 
of Ba ‘Dah vi. There the bees planted it, and used to edie their 
had never produced before. Now I was present when the honey 
was boiled, and Ba Dahri gave mea large measure of it.” 
id the fourth, ‘A woman went up from Wadi Haul to the 
top of the pass, collected as large a bundle of wood as she could 
bear, tied it, and went to drink water from a pool. cloud came 
and entered the bundle, aad she knew not of it. She lifted up 
her wood and went to her house, and carried it up on to the roof. 
That night lightning flashed and thunder rolled. Said people, 
ey 
“Whence comes this thunder ?” Some said, “It isin the house of 
Soand So.” They went and wer the owner, “What's the matter ?” 
Said the owner, “ All now about the matter is, that + my 
wife went out and brought back a bundle of wood ; and it seems 
that she brought a cloud inside it without our knowing of it. he 
first thing we knew was the thunder and lightning above us.’ 
Then the master of the house closed his doors and windows,® and 
the flood swept down the stairs, and in one night so inundated 
Wadi Haul that thie roots of the ber trees were laid bare ; and it 
bene by their being bared that Ba Dahri’ ® bees were able to uproot 
that tree.’ 
When I left those four, each was claiming to be the greatest 
liar, 
X,. THE RELIGIOUS SUBTERFUGE, 
a ram with a tail of the routed length, but could not hone one. 
He returned home, and found his father-in-law® in the 
“ How is it you are like this, Oh So - } 
Said, “ By God, thy daughter is ayant from me!” Sai 
re ee 
| B& Dahri and his family are said to be famons in Hazamant for their 
ctf ; 
2 Wadi Haul is said to be a wadi, a day’s journey from Raydah the village 
of ee Dahir 
3 ‘Tb is a said to be the Indian bev. a 
4 Lit. ‘‘ By God ! 
5 Abwab “ The doors and windows ” (with the exception of the sudda 
or secon door). 
8 A wife being generally cousin i8 call 
my uncle” ; hence a father-in-law is called 
ed Bint™ Ammi, “ Daughter r of 
Amm, which is properly uncle. 
