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Say me, wilt thou accompany me?"; and I answered "I will." So I

agreed to go with him at the head of the month, and I sold all I

had and bought other merchandise; then we set out and travelled,

I and the young man, to this country of yours, where he sold his

venture and bought other investment of country stuffs and

continued his journey to Egypt But it was my lot to abide here,

so that these things befell me in my strangerhood which befell

last night, and is not this tale, O King of the age, more

wondrous and marvellous than the story of the Hunchback? "Not

so," quoth the King, "I cannot accept it: there is no help for it

but that you be hanged, every one of you."-And Shahrazad

perceived the dawn of day, and ceased saying her permitted say.

When it was the Twenty-seventh Night,