“it possesses many singular and curious properties; of which the chief is, that if your majesty will give yourself the trouble to open it at the sixth leaf, and read the third line of the left page, my head, after being cut off, will answer all the questions you ask it.” The king being curious, deferred his death till next day, and sent him home under a strong guard. The physician, during that time, put his affairs in order; and the report being spread, that an unheard of prodigy was to happen after his death, the viziers, emirs, officers
return home, I thought fit to take her everywhere with me. “This is the history of myself and this hind: is it not one of the most wonderful and surprising?” “I admit it is,” said the genie, “and on that account forgive the merchant one third of his crime.” When the first old man had finished his story, the second, who led the two black dogs,