The Arabian Nights Entertainments, vol 2

The Arabian Nights
Entertainments (from the text of
Dr. Jonathan Scott), vol 2

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The "Aldine" Edition of
The Arabian Nights Entertainments Illustrated by S. L. Wood
FROM THE TEXT OF DR. JONATHAN SCOTT
In Four Volumes Volume 2 London Pickering and Chatto 1890

Contents of Volume II.
The Story of the Little Hunch-Back The Story Told by the Christian
Merchant The Story Told by the Sultan of Casgar's Purveyor The Story
Told by the Jewish Physician The Story Told by the Tailor The Story
Told by the Barber The Story Told by the Barber's Eldest Brother The
Story Told by the Barber's Second Brother The Story Told by the
Barber's Third Brother The Story Told by the Barber's Fourth Brother
The Story Told by the Barber's Fifth Brother The Story Told by the
Barber's Sixth Brother
The History of Aboulhassen Ali Ebn Ecar, and Schemselnihar,
Favourite of Caliph Haroon Al Rusheed
The Story of the Loves of Kummir Al Zummaun, Prince of the Isles of
the Children of Khaledan, and of Badoura, Princess of China
The Story of the Princes Amgiad and Assad The Story of the Prince

Amgiad and a Lady of the City of Magicians
The Story of Noor Ad Deen and the Fair Persian

THE STORY OF THE LITTLE HUNCH-BACK.

There was in former times at Casgar, on the extreme boundaries of
Tartary, a tailor who had a pretty wife, whom he affectionately loved,
and by whom he was beloved with reciprocal tenderness. One day
while he was at work, a little hunch-back seated himself at the shop
door and began to sing, and play upon a tabor. The tailor was pleased
with his performance, and resolved to take him to his house to entertain
his wife: "This little fellow," said he, "will divert us both this evening."
He accordingly invited him, and the other readily accepted the
invitation: so the tailor shut up his shop, and carried him home.
Immediately after their arrival the tailor's wife placed before them a
good dish of fish; but as the little man was eating, he unluckily
swallowed a bone, which, notwithstanding all that the tailor and his
wife could do, choked him. This accident greatly alarmed them both,
dreading, if the magistrates should hear of it, that they would be
punished as murderers. However, the husband devised a scheme to get
rid of the corpse. He reflected that a Jewish doctor lived just by, and
having formed his plan, his wife and he took the corpse, the one by the
feet and the other by the head, and carried it to the physician's house.
They knocked at the door, from which a steep flight of stairs led to his
chamber. The servant maid came down without any light, and opening
the door, asked what they wanted. "Have the goodness," said the tailor,
"to go up again, and tell your master we have brought him a man who
is very ill, and wants his advice. Here," continued he, putting a piece of
money into her hand, "give him that beforehand, to convince him that
we do not mean to impose." While the servant was gone up to inform
her master, the tailor and his wife hastily conveyed the hunchbacked
corpse to the head of the stairs, and leaving it there, hurried away.
In the mean time, the maid told the doctor, that