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Rh posed to me———But, stay, stay, I think I drank two glasses of brandy upon further consideration. Drink six i you will answered the Caliph. so you do but make an end of your story. Hold there, sir, cried the porter, one cannot swallow down brandy at that rate neither; twill fly into the head: I am half drunk with those two only, and you would have me here, after all that wine, tope down a bottle of brandy to boot: no no, sir.

I will do no such thin, though the sovereign commander of the faithful himself should beg me upon his knees to do it. But let us return to our sleep. So then it was that the cutler woman, seeing me grow a little merry, as one may say, gave me to understand, that a little crooked man, who came to he house to buy some cutlers are, had died suddenly in her shop, and that fearing she should be accused of having killed him, she would give the four sequins she had promised me, if I could throw him into the Tygris. I had not drank so much neither, but that I was resolved to make sure of my cash. I demanded two of the sequins in earnest; she gave them me: I puts little crump into my sack, does as I was bid, and come back to take the rest of my money, when the shows me again the very fame man. I leave you to imagine, sir, how much I was surprised. I put him once more into my sack, carried him again to the bridge, and choosing the most rapid part of the stream, tossed him in; and I was returning to the cutler's, when I again met the crooked toad with a lanthorn in his hand, and making as if he was drunk. I grew weary of so much jesting, took hold of him roughly, and pushing him into my sack in spite of his teeth, tied up the mouth of it, and slung him a third time-into the Tygris with my sack and all, imagining that