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didst thou find in it aught to call for the cutting off of my

head?" Quoth the Wazir, "That were the least of thy deserts!"

Quoth the cook, "O my lord, wilt thou not tell me my crime and

what aileth the conserve of pomegranate-grains?" "Presently,"

replied the Wazir and called aloud to his men, saying "Bring

hither the camels." So they struck the tents and by the Wazir's

orders the servants took Badr al-Din Hasan, and set him in a

chest which they padlocked and put on a camel. Then they departed

and stinted not journeying till nightfall, when they halted and

ate some victual, and took Badr al-Din Hasan out of his chest and

gave him a meal and locked him up again.