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[FN#89] Arab. "Kaylulah," mid-day sleep; called siesta from the

sixth canonical hour.

[FN#90] This parrot-story is world-wide in folk-lore and the

belief in metempsychosis, which prevails more or less over all

the East, there lends it probability. The "Book of Sindibad" (see

Night dlxxix. and "The Academy," Sept. 20, 1884, No. 646)

converts it into the "Story of the Confectioner, his Wife and the

Parrot," and it is the base of the Hindostani text-book,

"Tota-Kahani" (Parrot-chat), an abridgement of the Tutinamah

(Parrot-book) of Nakhshabi (circ. A.D. 1300), a congener of the

Sanskrit "Suka Saptati," or Seventy Parrot-stories. The tale is

not in the Bul. or Mac. Edits. but occurs in the Bresl. (i., pp.

90, 91) much mutilated; and better in the Calc. Edit I cannot

here refrain from noticing how vilely the twelve vols. of the

Breslau Edit have been edited; even a table of contents being

absent from the first four volumes.