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One day she began to tempt him as usual and he played with her

and made her sit on his lap, when behold, in came the Badawi who,

seeing this, cried out, "Woe to thee, O accursed villain,

wouldest thou debauch my wife for me?" Then he took out a knife

and cut off my brother's yard, after which he bound him on the

back of a camel and, carrying him to a mountain, left him there.

He was at last found by some who recognised him and gave him meat

and drink and acquainted me with his condition; whereupon I went

forth to him and brought him back to Baghdad where I made him an

allowance sufficient to live on. This, then, O Commander of the

Faithful, is the history of my six brothers, and I feared to go

away without relating it all to thee and leave thee in the error

of judging me to be like them. And now thou knowest that I have

six brothers upon my hands and, being more upright than they, I

support the whole family.