The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol 5 | Page 4

are one of my best and oldest friends.
Ever yours sincerely,
Richard F. Burton
Athen?um Club, October 20, 1885.
Contents of the Fifth Volume
59. The Ebony Horse 60. Uns Al-Wujud and the Wazir's Daughter Al-Ward Fi'l-Akmam or Rose-In-Hood 61. Abu Nowas With the Three Boys and the Caliph Harun Al-Rashid 62. Abdallah Bin Ma'amar With the Man of Bassorah and His Slave Girl 63. The Lovers of the Banu Ozrah 64. The Wazir of Al-Yaman and His Younger Brother 65. The Loves of the Boy and Girl at School 66. Al-Mutalammis and His Wife Umaymah 67. The Caliph Marun Al-Rashid and Queen Zubaydah in the Bath 68. Harun Al-Rashid and the Three Poets 69. Mus'ab Bin Al-Zubayr and Ayishah His Wife 70. Abu Al-Aswad and His Slave-Girl 71. Harun Al-Rashid and the Two Slave-Girls 72. The Caliph Harun Al-Rashid and the Three Slave-Girls 73. The Miller and His Wife 74. The Simpleton and the Sharper 75. The Kazi Abu Yusuf With Harum Al-Rashid and Queen Zubaydah 76. The Caliph Al-Hakim and the Merchand 77. King Kisra Anushirwan and the Village Damsel 78. The Water-Carrier and the Goldsmith's Wife 79. Khusrau and Shirin and the Fisherman 80. Yahya Bin Khalid the Barmecide and the Poor Man 81. Mohammed Al-Amin and the Slave-Girl 82. The Sons of Yahya Bin Khalid and Sa'id Bin Salim Al-Bahili 83. The Woman's Trick Against Her Husband 84. The Devout Woman and the Two Wicked Elders 85. Ja'afar the Barmecide and the Old Badawi 86. The Caliph Omar Bin Al-Khattab and the Young Badawi 87. The Caliph Al-Maamum and the Pyramids of Egypt 88. The Thief and the Merchant 89. Masrur the Eunuch and Ibn Al-Karibi 90. The Devotee Prince 91. The Unwise Schoolmaster Who Fell in Love by Report 92. The Foolish Dominie 93. The Illiterate Who Set Up For a Schoolmaster 94. The King and the Virtuous Wife 95. Abd Al-Rahman the Maghribi's Story of the Rukh 96. Adi Bin Zayd and the Princess Hind 97. Di'ibil Al-Khuza'i With the Lady and Muslim Bin Al-Walid 98. Isaac of Mosul and the Merchant 99. The Three Unfortunate Lovers 100. How Abu Hasan Brake Wind 101. The Lovers of the Banu Tayy 102. The Mad Lover 103. The Prior Who Became A Moslem 104. The Loves of Abu Isa and Jurrat Al-Ayn 105. Al-Amin Son of Al-Rashid and His Uncle Ibrahim Bin Al-Mahdi 106. Al-Fath Bin Khakan and Al-Mutawakkil 107. The Man's Dispute With the Learned Woman Concerning the Relative Excellence of Male and Female 108. Abu Suwayd and the Pretty Old Woman 109. The Emir ali Bin Tahir and the Girl Muunis 110. The Woman Who had a Boy and the Other Who had a Man to Lover 111. Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad 112. The Pilgrim Man and the Old Woman 113. Abu Alhusn and His Slave-Girl Tawaddud 114. The Angel of Death With the Proud King and the Devout Man 115. The Angel of Death and the Rich King 116. The Angel of Death and the King of the Children of Israel 117. Iskandar Zu Al-Karnayn and a Certain Tribe of Poor Folk 118. The Righteousness of King Anushirwan 119. The Jewish Kazi and His Pious Wife 120. The Shipwrecked Woman and Her Child 121. The Pious Black Slave 122. The Devout Tray-Maker and His Wife 123. Al-Jajjaj and the Pious Man 124. The Blacksmith Who Could Handle Fire Without Hurt 125. The Devotee To Whom Allah Gave a Cloud for Service and the Devout King 126. The Moslem Champion and the Christian Damsel 127. The Christian King's Daughter and the Moslem 128. The Prophet and the Justice of Providence 129. The Ferryman of the Nile and the Hermit 130. The Island King and the Pious Israelite 131. Abu Al-Hasan and Abu Ja'afar the Leper 132. The Queen of Serpents a. The Adventures of Bulukiya b. The Story of Jansha

The Book Of The THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT THE EBONY HORSE.[FN#1]

There was once in times of yore and ages long gone before, a great and puissant King, of the Kings of the Persians, Sábúr by name, who was the richest of all the Kings in store of wealth and dominion and surpassed each and every in wit and wisdom. He was generous, open handed and beneficent, and he gave to those who sought him and repelled not those who resorted to him; and he comforted the broken-hearted and honourably entreated those who fled to him for refuge. Moreover, he loved the poor and was hospitable to strangers and did the oppressed justice upon the oppressor. He had three daughters, like full moons of shining light or flower-gardens blooming bright; and a son as he were the moon; and it was his wont to keep two festivals in the twelve- month, those of the Nau-Roz,