THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
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I promise you that I will punish him on the spot. If, on the contrary, he writes well, as I hope he will, because I never saw an ape
so clever and ingenious and so quick of apprehension, I do declare that I will own him as my son; I had one that had not half the wit that he has.' Perceiving that nobody opposed my design, I took the pen and wrote six sorts of hands used among the Arabians,
