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 18 HISTORY OF THE THREE would keep him from getting out again. I went back to the cutler woman, and told her how I met the crump alive, and in what manner I get rid of him: but inſtead of paying in the two ſequins I expected, ſhe pretended to tear her hair in grief, and threatened to carry me before the Cady for having drowned her husband. I never minded her tears; but ſwore I would have my money, I made a bloody noiſe about it; the neighbours ran in at her cries ; I took to my heels. I was going home, grumbling in the gizzard very much, when you, ſir, forced me to take up this ſack upon my head, and bring it hither. Now, fir, continued the porter, you may caſdy gueſs the cauſe of my fright when at my arrival here, I found myſelf laden with the ſame man that I had three times flung into the Tygris, and beheld alſo two others ſo like him, that is im- poſſible to diſtinguish between them but by their clothes. Though the Caliph could not ſee into the bot- tom of this adventure, he took abundance of plea- ſute in hearing the porter's ſtory Then having viewed the three brothers a little more narrowly, he thought he perceived in them ſome ſigns of life, and ſent immediately for a physician: he came ſoon afterwards, and finding that Ibad and Sya- houk threw up with the water they had ſwallowed a great deal of brandy, he did not doubt, as in- cked it was true, but that their drunkenness was the occaſion of their being thought' dead. As for Babekan, nothing but want of air had almoſt ſuf- focated him ; but as ſoon as his head was out of the ſack he recovered by degrees ; ſo that in half an hour's time his brothers and he were entirely out of danger. Never was any body ſo amazed as Babekan was at