beaten his brothers and cast them into gaol and taken the two pairs of saddle bags; which when he heard, it was no light matter to him and he said to her, “Grieve not for the past; I will show thee what I can do and bring my brothers hither forth right.”  So he rubbed the ring, whereupon its servant appeared, saying, “Here am I!  Ask and thou shalt have.”  Quoth Judar, “I bid thee bring me my two brothers from the prison of the King.”  So the Jinni sank into the earth and came not up but in the midst of the gaol where Salim and Salim lay in piteous plight and sore sorrow for the plagues of prison,[FN#297] so that they wished for death, and one of them said to the other, “By Allah, O my brother, affliction is longsome upon us!  How long shall we abide in this prison?  Death would be relief.”  As he spoke, behold, the earth clove in sunder and out came Al-Ra’ad, who took both up and plunged with them into the earth.  They swooned away for excess of fear, and when they recovered, they found themselves in their mother’s house and saw Judar seated by her side.  Quoth he, “I salute you, O my brothers! you have cheered me by your presence.”  And they bowed their heads and burst into tears.  Then said he, “Weep not, for it was Satan and covetise that led you to do thus.  How could you sell me?  But I comfort myself with the thought of Joseph, whose brothers did with him even more than ye did with me, because they cast him into the pit.”—­And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.

       When it was the Six Hundred and Nineteenth Night,

She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Judar said to his brothers, “How could you do with me thus?  But repent unto Allah and crave pardon of Him, and He will forgive you both, for He is the Most Forgiving, the Merciful.  As for me, I pardon you and welcome you:  no harm shall befall you.”  Then he comforted them and set their hearts at ease and related to them all he had suffered, till he fell in with Shaykh Abd al-Samad, and told them also of the seal ring.  They replied, “O our brother, forgive us this time; and, if we return to our old ways, do with us as thou wilt.”  Quoth he, “No harm shall befall you; but tell me what the King did with you.”  Quoth they, “He beat us and threatened us with death and took the two pairs of saddle bags from us.”  “Will he not care?"[FN#298] said Judar, and rubbed the ring, whereupon Al-Ra’ad appeared.  When his brothers saw him, they were frighted and thought Judar would bid him slay them; so they fled to their mother, crying, “O our mother, we throw our selves on thy generosity; do thou intercede for us, O our mother!” And she said to them, “O my sons, fear nothing!” Then said Judar to the servant, “I command thee to bring me all that is in the King’s treasury of goods and such; let nothing remain and fetch the two pairs of saddle bags he took from my brothers.”  “I hear and I obey,” replied Al-Ra’ad; and, disappearing straight way gathered together all he