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Updated: May 7, 2025
'Do ye not know that the owners of the gardens use to come out of Baghdad to tend them, and when the night overtakes them, they enter this place and shut the gate, for fear the blacks like ourselves should catch them and roast them and eat them? 'Thou art right, replied the others; 'but, by Allah, none of us is less of wit than thou! 'If you do not believe me, said Bekhit, 'let us go into the tomb and I will unearth the rat for you; I doubt not but that, when he saw the light and us making for the tomb, he took refuge in the palm-tree, for fear of us. When Ghanim heard this, he said to himself, 'O most damnable of slaves, may God not have thee in His keeping for this thy craft and quickness of wit!
When they came to the tomb, one of those who were carrying the chest cried out to the other, 'Hello, Sewab! 'What ails thee, O Kafour? said the other. 'Were we not here at nightfall, asked the first, 'and did we not leave the gate open? 'True, replied Sewab. 'See, said the other, 'it is now shut and barred. 'How small is your wit! broke in the bearer of the lantern, whose name was Bekhit.
How shall I escape from these blacks? Then said the two bearers to him of the lantern, 'Climb over the wall and open the door to us, O Bekhit, for we are tired of carrying the chest on our shoulders; and thou shalt have one of those that we seize inside, and we will fry him for thee so featly that not a drop of his fat shall be lost. But he said, 'I am afraid of somewhat that my little sense has suggested to me; we should do better to throw the chest over the wall; for it is our treasure. 'If we throw it over, it will break, replied they.
Meanwhile each of us shall tell how he came to be an eunuch and all that befell him from first to last, to pass away the time, whilst we rest ourselves. 'Good, answered the others; and Bekhit said, 'O my brothers, I will begin. 'Say on, replied they. So he began as follows, 'Know, O my brothers, that Story of the Eunuch Bekhit.
And he said, 'I fear lest there be brigands within who kill four and steal their goods; for they are wont when night falls on them, to enter these places and divide their spoil. 'O thou of little wit! rejoined they, 'how could they get in here? Then they set down the chest and climbing the wall, got down and opened the gate, whilst Bekhit held the light for them, after which they shut the door and sat down.
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