have served me his trick twice already: but if you escape the third time, I will be hanged: then, being a lusty fellow, he threw his sack over his shoulders, and forcing him into it in spite of his teeth, tied the mouth of it with a strong rope, and running directly to the bridge, flung in poor Babekan, sack and all! he walked a pretty while thereabouts, for fear the crump should get out a gain to cheat him of his reward, but hearing no noise returned to the cutleress to demand the other two sequins, which she had promised him. Do not fear his coming any more, said he, the moment he sat his foot into the house: the wag had a mind to make me his sport for ever, I hink; he only pretended to be dead, that he might make me trot my legs off; but I have done his business for him now so thoroughly that he will never come to your house any more, I will engage for him.
Nohoud, surprised at this discourse, desired him to tell her what he meant by it. Why, replied he, I had again thrown this damned crump into the ygris, when as I was returning to you for my money, I met him again about five or six streets off with a lanthorn in his hand, singing and roaring under pretence of being drunk. I was so horridly enraged with him, that laying hold of him forced him into my sack in spite of all his resistance, tied it with a cord, and to throw him into the Tygris, from whence I believe he can never return unless he be the Daggial[1] himself.
Babekan's wife was in an unparalleled surprise at this news. Ah? sirrah, said she, what have you done? you have now drowned my husband; and have you the impudence to think I will re
- ↑ The Daggial is the Ancierilt of the Mahometans.
