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They set out once more and travelled till they reached Kimrah,

where they took him out of the box and brought him before the

Wazir who asked him, "Art thou he who dressed that conserve of

pomegranate-grains?" He answered "Yes, O my lord!"; and the Wazir

said "Fetter him!" So they fettered him and returned him to the

chest and fared on again till they reached Cairo and lighted at

the quarter called Al-Raydaniyah.[FN#477] Then the Wazir gave

order to take Badr al-Din Hasan out of the chest and sent for a

carpenter and said to him, "Make me a cross of wood [FN#478] for

this fellow!" Cried Badr al-Din Hasan "And what wilt thou do with

it?"; and the Wazir replied, "I mean to crucify thee thereon, and

nail thee thereto and parade thee all about the city." "And why

wilt thou use me after this fashion?" "Because of thy villanous

cookery of conserved pomegranate-grains; how durst thou dress it

and sell it lacking pepper?" "And for that it lacked pepper wilt

thou do all this to me?