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of So-and-so and So-at)d-so.** "Very well," said the other. So he 

 went and brought a ram and gave it to him. The other went off 

 leading the ram. He arrived at the pool, killed the ram, and 

 skinned it. Then he gathered some wood, lighted a fire, and 

 roasted the meat. AVhen he had finished roasting it, the three 

 females of the Jinn, already mentioned, came and said to him, 

 " Divide I '' He said, '* All right, wait a bit/' He then took the 

 roasted meat and put it into the skin. The old woman came and 

 caught hold of the skin ; but lie, takintr up a firebrand, struck her 

 with it in the face, and then ran off, taking the meat with him. The 

 two girls started after him, and one of them came up so close 

 behind him that she was able to sprinkle him with some milk from 

 her breast. He felt her do this; so when she turned back, he, too, 

 turned ; and hanging the skin on a tree, he followed her at a dis- 

 tance. When the daughter reached her mother and sister, the mother 

 said, " Has he escaped both of you ? " She who had sprinkled the 

 man with her milk said, '' No, he did not escape ns ; I overtook 

 him and sprinkled him with the milk. He cannot escape ; he 

 must die of it— unless he cauterizes every joint with a needle, only 

 then will no harm befall hiuK But if he does not cauterize the 

 milk, he dies." The man heard the words of the daughter and 

 turned back. He went to the meat and took it. He then came to 

 where the company had been seated and found them still there. 

 He produced the skin, handed it to the man with whom he had 

 laid the wager, and said to him, '' Take out the meat and examine 

 it to see whether any portion is wanting, or whether it is whole 

 and entire/' The other took the meat out of the skin, and found 

 it whole; so he gave him four dollars and half the meat. The 

 man then Avent to his h(mse, lighted a fire, threw a needle into the 

 fire, and cauterized every joint. Thus he met with no injury 

 and this is the story of the Haunted Pass. 



XTI. 

 Story of Ahu Nu^ds and his Brother. 



Ahu Nu^as had a dissolute brother, a gambler and a rake, 

 One day he met with such bad luck in gambling that he found 

 himself without even clothes on his back. He went to his 

 brother, who said to him, " AVhat state is this ? '' He said, " It 

 is as you see." Then people reasoned with Abu Nu^as and 



said, *'Yon are a wealthy miui and this brother of yours is 



orocner ot mme is a dissolute person. Nothing stays with him; 

 whatever he gets, he squanders/' They said, *' ISTo, no; you 

 must give hi»u a hundred dollars." **All right," said he ; and 

 he gave him a hundred dollars. The brother left with the 

 hundred dollars and journeyed till he came to a certain town. He 

 lound liimself under the walls of a house, and looking up, caught 

 a glimpse of a girl near the window. Now, there was a negress 



