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The narrator continues : " I then said to the hoy, ' Art 

 thou not ashamed to answer so pertly a great man like this ? ' 



Said the hoy, * Whenever he meets any one like me, he 



strain 



Story II. 



Quraysh tribe had a good- 



looking and well-mannered hand-maiden, whom he loved ex- 

 ceedingly. ^ His circumstances became straitened, and poverty so 



o vertoo k 

 to 



Governor] 



So he carried her 



vemor 



heart. Then a youth, a relation of his, came to stay with him • 

 so he Msigned for him a lodging near himself and treated him 

 well. One day the youth entered into Al-Hajjoj while the 

 girl was shampooing him. Now the youth had something of good 

 looks, so the girl began to eye him stealthily. Al-^ajjclj noticed 

 her, and so he presented her to the youth, who thanked 2 him 

 and went off with her. She stayed one night with him and ran 

 away in the early dawn » ; and in the morning the youth could 

 not find her. News of this reached Al-Hajjaj, so he ordered this 

 proclamation to be cried : " Any one who may have kept a ^irl of 

 such and such a description, and returns her to me will be held 

 Jf^r^^"^^^^'" ^^^ ""^^^^ *^"'^ ^^® was brought to' him Then 



fl'-C^-K^ T^^ T° ^^'■' '1^^ ^""^"^^ ""^ ^""^ ' y«^ were one of those 

 1 liked best, so I chose for you my own cousin, a handsome vonth 



Now I saw you casting sheep's eyes at him, so I gave you to him* 



My 



Ixke." He said, " Out with it." She%aid,^"rbelo;gedlo ^h; 

 Q«rat/.^e youth but he was in need of my price and lo brought 

 me to Kufah. When we n eared this town he approached me fnd 

 embraced me, and while he was possessing me he heard the roar- 

 rng of a hon. So he sprang to his feet and drew his sword and 

 attacked It. and slew it with one blow, and brought it! head to 

 me, and then turned to me without his passion haWng cooled n 

 the least : then he did to me what he wished. Now^this cous n 



yours 



S' n' ^^ ''V:'^ embrace:Vmru:rfen fr^m he rTo? 

 and he forgot himself* through fear and fainted. Then he iTy 



665-7inT). *^ *"^ —''''''" ^"'^'^ '^' Omayyads (44- 



P. 



2 AJ Ud , " blessed him ; prayed for him." 



3 ^jpJi *' BegiBning of the dawo; darkness of 

 when it becomes mixed with the light of the dawn. 



* ^j^t ** Crepitum ventris emisit 



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