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This face telleth of pleasant doings and dalliance and kissing

and clipping from dusk to dawn." "Allah grant the liar no peace,

O thou thousandfold cuckold!", my brother replied, "by Allah, I

did nothing but turn the mill in the place of the bull all night

till morning!" "Tell me thy tale," quoth he; and my brother

recounted what had befallen him and he said, "Thy star agrees not

with her star; but an thou wilt I can alter the contract for

thee," adding, "'Ware lest another cheat be not in store for

thee." And my brother answered him, "See if thou have not another

contrivance." Then the clerk left him and he sat in his shop,

looking for some one to bring him a job whereby he might earn his

day's bread.