While the perie thus encouraged Buddir ad Deen, and instructed him how he should behave himself, hump-back had really gone out of the room for a moment.  The genie went to him in the shape of a monstrous cat, mewing at a most fearful rate.  Hump-back called to the cat, he clapped his hands to drive her away, but instead of retreating, she stood upon her hinder feet, staring with her eyes like fire, looking fiercely at him, mewing louder than she did at first, and increasing in size till she was as large as an ass.  At this sight, hump-back would have cried out for help, but his fear was so great, that he stood gaping and could not utter one word.  That he might have no time to recover, the genie changed himself immediately into a large buffalo, and in this stripe called to him, with a voice that redoubled his fear, “Thou hump-backed villain!” At these words the affrighted groom cast himself upon the ground, and covering his face with his vest, that he might not see this dreadful beast, “Sovereign prince of buffaloes,” said he, “what is it you want of me?” “Woe be to thee,” replied the genie, “hast thou the presumption to venture to marry my mistress?” “O my lord,” said hump-back, “I pray you to pardon me, if I am guilty, it is through ignorance.  I did not know that this lady had a buffalo to her sweetheart:  command me in anything you please, I give you my oath that I am ready to obey you.”  “By death,” replied the genie; “if thou goest out from hence, or speakest a word till the sun rises, I will crush thy head to pieces.  I warn thee to obey, for if thou hast the impudence to return, it shall cost thee thy life.”  When the genie had done speaking, he transformed himself into the shape of a man, took hump-back by the legs, and after having set him against the wall with his head downwards, “If thou stir,” said he, “before the sun rise, as I have told thee already, I will take thee by the heels again, and dash thy head in a thousand pieces against the wall.”

To return to Buddir ad Deen.  Prompted by the genie and the presence of the perie, he returned to the hall, from whence he slips into the bride-chamber, where he sat down, expecting the success of his adventure.  After a while the bride arrived, conducted by an old matron, who came no farther than the door, without looking in to see whether it were hump-back or another that was there, and then retired.

The beautiful bride was agreeably surprised to find instead of hump-back a handsome youth, who gracefully addressed her.  “What! my dear friend,” said she, “by your being here at this time of night you must be my husband’s comrade?” “No, madam,” said Buddir ad Deen, “I am of another quality than that ugly hump-back.”  “But,” said she, “you do not consider that you speak degradingly of my husband.”  “He your husband,” replied he:  “can you retain those thoughts so long?  Be convinced of your mistake, for so much beauty must never be sacrificed to the most contemptible of mankind.  It is I that am the happy mortal for whom it is reserved.  The sultan had a mind to make himself merry, by putting this trick upon the vizier your father, but he chose me to be your real husband.  You might have observed how the ladies, the musicians, the dancers, your women, and all the servants of your family, were pleased with this comedy.  We have sent hump-back to his stable again.”