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Presently the damsel came to him and said, "My master calleth for

thee." Hearing these words he feared with exceeding fear; but the

slave girl, seeing his affright, said to him, "No evil is meant

to thee: naught but good awaiteth thee. My lady would have thee

make acquaintance with my lord." So my brother the tailor,

rejoicing with great joy, went with her; and when he came into

the presence of his landlord, the lady's husband, he kissed the

ground before him, and the master of the house returned his

greeting and gave him a great piece of linen saying, "Shape me

shirts out of this stuff and sew them well;" and my brother

answered, "To hear is to obey." Thereupon he fell to work at

once, snipping, shaping and sewing till he had finished twenty

shirts by supper time, without stopping to taste food.