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 WOMEN’S CRAFT.

It is told that there was once, in the city of Baghdad, a comely and well-bred youth, fair of face, tall of stature and slender of shape. His name was Alaeddin and he was of the chiefs of the sons of the merchants and had a shop wherein he sold and bought One day, as he sat in his shop, there passed by him a girl of the women of pleasure, who raised her eyes and casting a glance at the young merchant, saw written in a flowing hand on the forepart of the door of his shop, these words, “” When she beheld this, she was wroth and took counsel with herself, saying, “As my head liveth, I will assuredly show

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