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Thereupon I swooned away and she sprinkled the severed parts with a powder which staunched the blood; and I said, 'Never again will I eat of ragout of cumin-seed without washing my hands forty times with potash, forty times with galingale and forty times with soap! And she took of me an oath to that effect.
Then said the controller, 'Know, O King, that The Controller's Story. I was the night before last in company with a number of persons who were assembled for the purpose of hearing a recitation of the Koran. The doctors of the law attended, and when the readers had made an end of reading, the table was spread, and amongst other things they set before us a ragout flavoured with cumin-seed.
Wilt thou cut off my hand, because I ate of a ragout and did not wash? And the girls interceded with her, saying, 'O our sister, forgive him this once! But she said, 'By Allah, I must and will dock him of somewhat! Then she went away and I saw no more of her for ten days, at the end of which time, she came in to me and said, 'O black-a-vice, I will not make peace with thee, till I have punished thee for eating ragout of cumin-seed, without washing thy hands! Then she cried out to the maids, who bound me; and she took a sharp razor and cut off my thumbs and toes, as ye have seen.
Lads, the frog has a jolly life, he is not cumbered about a butler to his drink, for he has liquor by him unstinted! Boil the lentils better, thou miserly steward; take heed lest thou chop thy fingers, when thou'rt splitting cumin-seed. 'Tis thus that men should sing who labour i' the sun, but thy starveling love, thou clod, 'twere fit to tell to thy mother when she stirs in bed at dawning.
Meanwhile, they set before me a tray of food, on which was a basin containing a ragout of fricasseed fowls' breasts dressed with cumin-seed and flavoured with sugar and rose-water, mixed with musk, and many another dish, such as amazed the wit; and by Allah, I did not hesitate, but fell upon the ragout and ate my fill of it.
I was alarmed and trembled, not knowing what was the matter, and the girls said to her, 'What ails thee, O sister? Quoth she, 'Take this madman away from me: methought he was a man of sense. 'What makes thee think me mad? asked I. 'O madman, answered she, 'what made thee eat of ragout of cumin-seed, without washing thy hands? By Allah, I will punish thee for thy misconduct!
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