The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 306 pages of information about The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 306 pages of information about The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06.
found in the treasury and returned with the two pairs of saddle bags and the deposits therein and laid them before Judar, saying, “O my lord, I have left nothing in the treasury.”  Judar gave the treasure to his mother bidding her keep it and laying the enchanted saddle bags before him, said to the Jinni, “I command thee to build me this night a lofty palace and overlay it with liquid gold and furnish it with magnificent furniture:  and let not the day dawn, ere thou be quit of the whole work.”  Replied he, “Thy bidding shall be obeyed;” and sank into the earth.  Then Judar brought forth food and they ate and took their ease and lay down to sleep.  Meanwhile, Al-Ra’ad summoned his attendant Jinn and bade them build the palace.  So some of them fell to hewing stones and some to building, whilst others plastered and painted and furnished; nor did the day dawn ere the ordinance of the palace was complete; whereupon Al-Ra’ad came to Judar and said to him, “O my lord, the palace is finished and in best order, an it please thee to come and look on it.”  So Judar went forth with his mother and brothers and saw a palace, whose like there was not in the whole world; and it confounded all minds with the goodliness of its ordinance.  Judar was delighted with it while he was passing along the highway and withal it had cost him nothing.  Then he asked his mother, “Say me, wilt thou take up thine abode in this palace?” and she answered, “I will, O my son,” and called down blessings upon him.  Then he rubbed the ring and bade the Jinni fetch him forty handsome white hand maids and forty black damsels and as many Mamelukes and negro slaves.  “Thy will be done,” answered Al-Ra’ad and betaking himself, with forty of his attendant Genii to Hind and Sind and Persia, snatched up every beautiful girl and boy they saw, till they had made up the required number.  Moreover, he sent other four score, who fetched comely black girls, and forty others brought male chattels and carried them all to Judar’s house, which they filled.  Then he showed them to Judar, who was pleased with them and said, “Bring for each a dress of the finest.”  “Ready!” replied the servant.  Then quoth he, “Bring a dress for my mother and another for myself, and also for my brothers.”  So the Jinni fetched all that was needed and clad the female slaves, saying to them, “This is your mistress:  kiss her hands and cross her not, but serve her, white and black.”  The Mamelukes also dressed them selves and kissed Judar’s hands; and he and his brothers arrayed themselves in the robes the Jinni had brought them and Judar became like unto a King and his brothers as Wazirs.  Now his house was spacious; so he lodged Salim and his slave girls in one part thereof and Salim and his slave girls in another, whilst he and his mother took up their abode in the new palace; and each in his own place was like a Sultan.  So far concerning them; but as regards the King’s Treasurer, thinking to take something from the treasury, he went in and found it altogether empty, even as saith the poet,

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