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                   "TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE."
                           (Puris omnia pura)

                                                        —_Arab Proverb._

          "Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole."

                                            —"_Decameron_"—_conclusion_.

              "Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
                  Sed coram Bruto. Brute! recede, leget."

                                                             —_Martial._

            "Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre,
                Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes."

                                                              —RABELAIS.

"The pleasure we derive from perusing the Thousand-and-One Stories makes
us regret that we possess only a comparatively small part of these truly
enchanting fictions."

                                      —CRICHTON'S "_History of Arabia_."

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_A PLAIN AND LITERAL TRANSLATION OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS.
NOW ENTITULED_




                           _THE BOOK OF THE_
                     =Thousand Nights and a Night=

              _WITH INTRODUCTION EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE
                MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF MOSLEM MEN AND A
                 TERMINAL ESSAY UPON THE HISTORY OF THE
                                NIGHTS_

                              VOLUME III.


                                   BY
                           RICHARD F. BURTON

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        PRINTED BY THE BURTON CLUB FOR PRIVATE SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

                            Shammar Edition

Limited to one thousand numbered sets, of which this is

                              Number _547_




                          PRINTED IN U. S. A.




                        Inscribed to the Memory

                                   OF

                                A FRIEND

                                  WHO

                DURING A FRIENDSHIP OF TWENTY-SIX YEARS

                        EVER SHOWED ME THE MOST

                           UNWEARIED KINDNESS

                        Richard Monckton Milnes

                            Baron Houghton.




                     CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.


                                                                  PAGE

 CONTINUATION OF THE TALE OF KING OMAR BIN AL-NU'UMAN AND HIS
   SONS SHARRKAN AND ZAU AL-MAKAN.

          _aa._ CONTINUATION OF THE TALE OF AZIZ AND AZIZAH          1

          _ab._ CONCLUSION OF THE TALE OF KING OMAR BIN             48
                  AL-NU'UMAN AND HIS SONS SHARRKAN AND ZAU
                  AL-MAKAN

     _b._ TALE OF THE HASHISH-EATER                                 91

     _c._ TALE OF HAMMAD THE BADAWI                                104


  1. THE BIRDS AND BEASTS AND THE CARPENTER                        114

 (_Lane, II. 52-59. The Fable of the Peacock and Peahen, the Duck, the
 Young Lion, the Ass, the Horse, the Camel, and the Carpenter, etc._)


  2. THE HERMITS                                                   125


  3. THE WATER-FOWL AND THE TORTOISE                               129


  4. THE WOLF AND THE FOX                                          132

        (_Lane, II. 59-69. The Fable of the Fox and the Wolf._)

     _a._ TALE OF THE FALCON AND THE PARTRIDGE                     138


  5. THE MOUSE AND THE ICHNEUMON                                   147


  6. THE CAT AND THE CROW                                          149


  7. THE FOX AND THE CROW                                          150

     _a._ THE FLEA AND THE MOUSE                                   151

     _b._ THE SAKER AND THE BIRDS                                  154

     _c._ THE SPARROW AND THE EAGLE                                155


  8. THE HEDGEHOG AND THE WOOD PIGEONS                             156

     _a._ THE MERCHANT AND THE TWO SHARPERS                        158


  9. THE THIEF AND HIS MONKEY                                      159

          THE FOOLISH WEAVER                                      _ib._


 10. THE SPARROW AND THE PEACOCK                                   161


 11. ALI BIN BAKKAR AND SHAMS AL-NAHAR                             162

   (_Lane, Vol. II., Chapt. ix. Story of Alee the Son of Bakkar, and
                        Shams en-Nahár, p. 1._)


 12. TALE OF K