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So we lifted him up, I and my wife, and carried him to the Jew's

house where the slave girl came down and opened the door to us

and I said to her, 'Tell thy master that there are a man and a

woman and a sick person for thee to see!' I gave her a quarter

dinar and she went up to tell her master; and, whilst she was

gone, I carried the Hunchback to the head of the staircase and

propped him up against the wall, and went off with my wife. When

the Jew came down he stumbled over him and thought that he had

killed him." Then he asked the Jew, "Is this the truth?"; and the

Jew answered, "Yes." Thereupon the Tailor turned to the Governor,

and said, "Leave go the Jew and hang me." When the Governor heard

the Tailor's tale he marvelled at the matter of this Hunchback

and exclaimed.