Thousand & One Nights: 86th Night

The following night Shahrazad said: 
It is said, O King Ja'far said to the Caliph.

When the hunchbacked said to the father of the bride, "Couldn't you people have found anyone for me to marry except a girl who consorts with buffaloes and demons for lovers? May God curse the devil and my wretched lot," the vizier said, "get up and go!"

The hunchbacked did not leave, but said, "I am not crazy. The sun has not risen yet. I will not go until the sun rises. Yesterday I came to relieve here when a black tomcat suddenly emerged and screamed at me in a way that made me obey him. Leave me and go your way. May God reward you and curse the bride!"

But the vizier took him out of the toilet, and the hunchbacked straightway went to the king and told him what had happened.

Meanwhile, the father of the bride went back inside the house, amazed and bewildered, not knowing what to make of his daughter. He went to her and said, "Damn it, tell me your secret!"

She replied, "Ah, father, what secret? By God, last night I was presented to a young man who spent the night with me, entered me, and made me pregnant. Here on this chair is his turban, and here are his robe and his dagger, and here under the mattress are his trousers, wrapped around something. The vizier took his nephew's turban and turning it in his hand, examined it and said, "By God, this is a vizier's turban, tied in the style of Mosul." When he examined it further, he felt inside it a scroll, folded, sealed, and sewn into the lining. He unfolded the trousers and ound the purse with the thousand dinars and the piece of paper. When he unfolded the paper, he read "Badr al-Din Hasan al Basri has sold to Isaac the Jew the cargo of the first ship to arrive for a thousand dinars and has received the money," and screamed and fell down into a swoon.

The Night ended, and Shahrazad lapsed into silence. Dinarzad told her sister, "What a strange and entertaining story."

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