The Arabian Nights

and by what good chance thou art still alive.” I satisfied his curiosity, and going both of us next morning to the hill, he found to his great joy that what I had told him was true. We loaded the elephant which had carried us with as many teeth as he could bear; and when we were returned, “Brother,”

said my patron, “for I will treat you no more as my slave, after having made such a discovery as will enrich me, God bless you with


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and by what good chance thou art still alive.” I satisfied his curiosity, and going both of us next morning to the hill, he found to his great joy that what I had told him was true. We loaded the elephant which had carried us with as many teeth as he could bear; and when we were returned, “Brother,”

said my patron, “for I will treat you no more as my slave, after having made such a discovery as will enrich me, God bless you with


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