and the chance which led him to the discovery of his crime.
Never was any surprise so great as that of the caliph, yet he could not refrain from falling into excessive fits of laughter.
At last he recovered himself, and with a serious air told the vizier, that since his slave had been the occasion of murder, he deserved an exemplary punishment. “I must own it,” said the vizier, “but his guilt is not unpardonable: I remember the wonderful history of a vizier,
and the chance which led him to the discovery of his crime.
Never was any surprise so great as that of the caliph, yet he could not refrain from falling into excessive fits of laughter.
At last he recovered himself, and with a serious air told the vizier, that since his slave had been the occasion of murder, he deserved an exemplary punishment. “I must own it,” said the vizier, “but his guilt is not unpardonable: I remember the wonderful history of a vizier,
