The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 5 of 12 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 5 of 12

Pebbles. To these he committed me, commending me to their care, and saying, This man is a stranger, so take him with you and teach him how to gather, that he may get his daily bread, and you will earn your reward and recompense in Heaven. On our head and eyes be it! Answered they, and bidding me welcome, fared on with me till we came to a spacious Wady, full of lofty trees with trunks so smooth that none might climb them. Now sleeping under these trees were many apes, which when they saw us rose and ¿ed from us and swarmed up among the branches; whereupon my companions began to pelt them with what they had in their bags, and the apes fell to plucking of the fruit of the trees and casting them at the folk I looked at the fruits they cast at us and found them to be Indian 1 or cocoa nuts; so I chose out a great tree, full of apes, and going up to it, began to pelt them with stones, and they in return pelted me with nuts, which I collected, as did the rest; so that even before I had made an end of my bagful of pebbles, I had gotten great plenty of nuts and as soon as my companions had in like manner come by as many nuts as they could carry, we returned to the city, where we arrived at the fag-end of day. Then I went in to the kindly man who had brought me in company with the nut gatherers and gave him all I had gotten, thanking him for his kindness; but he would not accept them, saying, Sell them and make profit by the price and presently he added (giving me the key of a closet in his house), Store thy nuts in this safe place and go thou forth every morning and gather them as thou hast done to-day, and choose out the worst for sale and supplying thyself; but lay up the rest here, so haply thou mayst collect enough to serve thee for thy return home. Allah requite thee, answered I and did as he advised me, going out daily with the cocoa-nut gatherers, who commended me to one another and showed me the best-stocked trees.2 Thus did I for some time, till I had laid up great store of excellent nuts, besides a large sum of money, the price of those I had sold. I became thus at my ease and bought all I saw and had a mind to, and passed my time pleasantly, greatly enjoying my stay in the city, till, as I stood on the beach one day, a great ship steering through the heart of the sea presently cast anchor by the shore and.

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• Autori: R. F. Burton
• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2018
• Pagine: 522
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Peso: 849 g
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy