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met a tiger who advanced against him -with intent to kill him.^ 

 The Bedouin said to the tiger, ** Thy protection, Ahti *l-Hdrzs ! '' 

 So the tiger turned aside and went on walking by the side of the 

 man. The Bedouin sat down then and slept near the edge of a 

 precipice, and the tiger came and lay down on the edge, a little 

 below him. The Bedouin waited till the tiger was asleep and then 

 he treated him as Jews treat those who chum^ with them ; giving 

 him a kick, he landed him at the bottom dead. In the morning 

 the Bedouin found the tiger dead at the foot of the precipice. 

 The Bedouin then went his way, but eight days after he was 

 covered with leprosy. When I left, the Bedouin was segregated, 

 neither alive nor dead. 



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The Shaykh and his Daughter. 



There was once a ShayTch^ who had a daughter. He had no 

 other offspring besides her. When the girl grew up, his brother's 

 son came, asking her hand in marriage* Her father refused, saying, 

 " Thou art poor and hast no property. I will not give thee my 

 daughter.*' After some time, there arrived at the village a 

 young vagabond, a son of a weaver. The Shaykh saw him and was 

 pleased with his looks. He said to him, *' Whose son art thou ? " 

 He said, ** The son of such and such a Shaykh- I was a supping 

 with my father, when Satan came between ns,^ and my father 

 drove me out." The Shaykh then said, "Dost thou wish to stay 

 with me ? I will take from thee a written agreement that thou 

 wilt stay with me, and I marry thee to my daughter.'* The boy 

 said, '* Very well." Next day, the Shaykh called the Qazi and had 

 the document written ; and, as promised, he married him to the 

 girl. The night of the marriage the boy went in to the girl ; but 

 as he approached her, she repulsed him. He was frightened and 

 slept alone. In the morning, the girl's father cf»me in to see her. 

 As soon as he entered, she said to him, " This boy yon have given 



, nor can he be a Qahill * ; he 

 is either a weaver's son or a carpenter's son.*' Her father asked 

 her, " Why, how didst thou find this out ? " She said, '' He is 

 nothing,"^ The Shaykh took the boy away with him, and pressed 

 him till he confessed that he was a weaver's son ; so he drove him 

 away. Next day, he sent for his nephew and manned him to the 

 girl. That niglit he went in to the girl and drew near her. She 

 addressed him arrogantly, saying, *' Keep off ! Go over there.^ He 

 went up to her, caught her by the forelock, threw her on the ground, 

 and cuffed her with his hand. After that he said to her, " Get up 

 and light my pipe." Then he said to her, *' Shampoo my feet," 



1 A kunyah for the lion or tiger from £iy^ " to strive for one's living. 



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2 xjfj '* to live with another." 8 i.e., we qnarrelled. 



♦ QahlUy " one of the fighting claas." 

 B i.e., ** he has no spirit in him.'* 



