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 CRUM TWIN-BROTHERS. 9 opened, and faſpecting his wife of having ſome gallant hid in a corner, he took a ſtick and beat her ſoundly, afterwards, his jealouſy inducing him to ſearch all the houſe, he viſited every hole with the greateſt cure, but never thought of look- ing behind the brandy tubs, thught he went into the cellar. At laſt, the hump-backed churl ; hav- ing made no diſcovery, grew a little calms he locked all the doors; taking the keys according to his custom; went to bed with Nohoud; and did not go out all next day till toward the evening- prayer, telling his wife he ſhould ſup with a friend. His back was hardly turned, when Nohoud ran immediately to the cellar; but ſhe was in the ut- moſt ſurprife at finding Ibad and Syahouk without the leaſt ſigns of life: her perplexity increaſed. when ſhe conſidered ſhe had no way of getting rid of the two bodies; but taking her reſistor at once, ſhe ſuut up the ſhop, ran to look towards the bridge of Bagdad for a fooliſh porter of Sivii- hiſſar, and having told him that a little hump- backed man who came to her houſe to buy ſome knives, having died there ſuddenly, ſhe feared ſhe ſhould be brought into trouble about it's ; ſhe proſ- ſered him four ſequins of gold, if he would put him into a ſack, and throw him into the Tygris. The porter 'accepted her offer.; and Nohoud hav- ing taken him home with her, gave him two ſe- quins by way of earneſt, treated him with drink till it was night, put only one of the crumps into his ſack, helped him up with it, and promiſed to give him the other two ſequins when ſhe was ſure he had performed his commiſſion. The porter, with the crump upon his ſhoulders, being are famous for their ſimplicity.
 * Sivrihi Tar is a town of Natolia, the inlabyants of which