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182 is my lord and my master who reared me.’ So was I the cause of thy deliverance and thus I saved thee from them.” When I heard this, I said to him, “Stop;” and entering my house, brought him that which God the Most High made easy [to me]. So he went his way. And this is my story.’

Then came forward the fourteenth officer and said, ‘Know that the story I have to tell is pleasanter and more extraordinary than this; and it is as follows.