Thousand & One Nights: 106th Night
One hundred and sixth night. The hunchback tambourine player and singer was choked to death when the tailor pushed a piece of fish to the former's mouth and shut it with his hands. Tailor's wife worked up to cover up the crime, and brought the dead body to a Jewish physician's house; where she asked the physician's maid to attend a sick boy and gave her a quarter dinar. When the physician's maid went to call the physician, the tailor propped up the dead body on the staircase. The physician was pleased with the quarter dinar handed over by the maid to him went downstairs to see the patient, and stumbled upon the propped up body, and it rolled down. Thinking that the sick boy was dead because of his stumbling on him the physician took him upstairs. His wife advised him to throw it to the compound of bachelor steward. The physician and his wife propped up the dead body at the foot of the wind shaft of the steward's compound. When the steward saw a man reclining on ...