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standing at tlie door, so he said to her, >'Whois this in the 

 house?" She said, "This is my mistress." He said to her, 

 "Go and ask your mistress if siie will take a hundred dollars to 

 allovr me to have a good look at her,'* The negress went in and 

 informed her mistress. Her mistress said, " Hriiig in his hundred 

 dolUirs.'* The negress went out and Said to him, " Give me your 

 hundred dollars and my mistress will look oat from the window, 

 and you can gaze afc her till you are tired/' He gave her the 

 hundred dollars. She went up with the hundred dollars, and the 

 girl looked out from the window above. He gazed at her till he 

 was tired, and then went back to his brother, A few da\s after, 

 his bro.her asked him, ** What have you done with the hundred 

 dollars r " He said, '' Fiiith, a mere girl has robbed me of them.'* 

 His brother said, '* And how did she manage to do that?'* He 

 replied, *' I saw that the girl was very pretty. When I first saw 

 her I did not get a good look at her? so I asked her slave-girl, who 

 was standing by the door, who the girl in the house was ; and she 

 said it was her mistress. 1 then >aid to the slave girl, * Let voiir 

 mistress take a hundi^ed dollars and allow me to have a good look 

 at her.' *' His brother said to him, *' Did you botii look at her and 

 possess her, or simply look at her? " He said, "No; nothing but 

 a look.'' '* Very well," said Abil Nn^ns, "get up and show me her 

 house.'* The other answered, " All right, qome alon^-!" Then Abu 

 Nu^as ro.^e and brought a ram, and went with his brother, leading 

 the ram. When tbey arrived under the house where the girl lived, 

 the bi-othei; said, " In this house." Abu Nit^as jumped forward 

 and said to his brother, "Catch hold of the ram." So he caught 

 hold of the ram ; then Abu Nii^as kept on saying in a loud voice 

 under the house, " Hold it for. me, hold it tight." The girl heard 

 the cries and looked out. Then Ahu Nn'as said to his brother, 

 '' Have a good look for nothing now that rams are being 

 slaughtered ! ** Having killed the ram, he skinned it, putting the 

 flesh and bones aside. He then distributed the flesh, j^riving the 

 slave-girl a large quantity- She took the meat to her mistress, 

 who said to her, " From whence is this meat ? " She said, " From 

 the man wl>o killed the lam," At night, Abu Nu^ds said to the 

 negress, " ITl pass the night here, under the door." ** All riglit, " 

 said the slave-giil. When the first watch of the night had 

 passed, ti»e street dogs came, attracted by the smell of the fl-sh, 

 Abil Nn^ns thi-ew a bone at them, atjd they nil scrambled round 

 him. He then shouted out. The negress looked out and said, 

 '' What is the matt r with you ? " He said, *' The dogs are eating 

 me up.'' Tfien the girl said, ''Bring liim inside the porch." So 

 the negt ess came and opened ti»e porch for him and closed the 



dooi . After a while, the cats ca-ne, also attracted by the smell of 

 the flesh* He threw a bone to them, and they scrambled for it. 

 He cried out, and the trli-l suid to her negress, " Bring him up and 

 let him stay outside the door." So slie brought him up, and he 

 remained outside the d*>or. The cats followed and he thr^w them 

 a bone, and they again scrambled for it, and he again cried oat. 

 The girl then skid, " Bring him inside the room," So the negress 



