HIKAYAT ABU NAWAS. 
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p. 43 the test between husband and demon is entering a 
narrow-necked jug. In “ Folk-Tales of Bengal ” (Day) 
p. 182 a similar story is found. 
( d ) I gave a parallel for the story of Abu Nawas sewing a 
broken mortar in my last article. I have since come 
across several more. In the Persian metrical Sindibad 
Namah a rogue produces a stone — for some reason not 
mentioned in the MS. — and says to him, ‘ Make me 
from this piece of marble a pair of trousers and a 
shirt.’ Taking bis cue from the rogue’s chief, he asks 
first for an iron thread to sew them -with. In the 
Talmud there is the story of a.n Athenian who walking 
about Jerusalem picked up a broken mortar and asked 
a tailor to patch it. £ Willingly ’ said the tailor, tak- 
ing up a handful of sand, ‘ if you will make me a few 
threads of this material.’ (Clouston’s “Popular Tales 
and Fictions,” vol. II, pp. 105 and 112). *In Muham- 
madan legends of Putri Balkis, one of the problems 
she gives Solomon is to thread a diamond (Weil’s 
“ Biblical Legends of the Mussulmans,” London 1846). 
(e) p. 20 Tale XITI. This tale is told of Abu’l-Husin in the 
“Arabian Nights” (Payne’s “Tales from the Arabic,”' 
vol. I, pp. 31-42) in a far more spirited fashion. 
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