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Excerpt from The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Supplemental Nights), Vol. 11 of 12: Translated From the Arabic
IT hath been related that in Tarabulus-town2 Of Syria was a Kazi appointed under orders of the Caliph Harun al-rashid to adjudge law-suits and dissolve contracts and cross-examine witnesses; and after taking seat in his Mahkamah3 his rigour and severity became well known to all men. Now this judge kept a black handmaiden likest unto a buffalo-bull, and she cohabited with him for a lengthened while; for his nature was ever niggardly nor could anyone wrest from him half a faddah or any alms-gift or aught else and his diet was of biscuit 4 and onions. Moreover, he was ostentatious as he was miserly: he had an eating-cloth bordered with a fine bell-fringe,5 and when any person entered about dinner-time or supper-tide he would cry out, O handmaid, fetch the fringed table-cloth and all who heard his Words would say to themselves, By Allah, this must needs be a costly thing. Presently one day of the days his assessors and officers said to him, O our lord the Kazi, take to thyself a wife, for yon negress becometh'not a dignitary of thy degree. Said he, An this need be, let any who hath a daughter give her to me in wedlock and 1 will espouse her. Herewith quoth one present, I have a fair daughter and a marriageable whereto quoth the Kazi, An thou wouldst do me a favour, this is the time. SO the bride was fitted out and the espousals took place forthright, and that same night the Kazi's father-in-law came to him and led him in to his bride, saying in his heart, I am now connected with the Kazi. And he took pleasure in the thought, for he knew naught of the judge's stinginess and he could not suppose but that his daughter would.
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