slave-girl saw it on that side too.  And she went and said to her mistress, “Yon carder, to whom I went, has two yards.”  The lady said to her, “Go and say to yon carder, ‘My mistress wishes thee; come at night.’” So the slave-girl went and said this to the carder.  As soon as it was night the carder went to that place and waited.  The woman went out and met the carder and said, “Come and have to do with me while I am lying by my husband.”  When it was midnight the carder came and waked the woman.  The woman lay conveniently and the carder fell to work.  She felt that the yard which entered her was but one, and said, “Ah my soul, carder, at it with both of them.”  While she was softly speaking her husband awaked and asked, “What means thy saying, ‘At it with both of them?’” He stretched out his hand to his wife’s kaze and the carder’s yard came into it.  The carder drew himself back and his yard slipped out of the fellow’s hand, and he made shift to get away.  The fellow said, “Out on thee, wife, what meant that saying of thine, ‘At it with both of them?’” The woman said, “O husband, I saw in my dream that thou wast fallen into the sea and wast swimming with one hand and crying out, ‘Help!  I am drowning!’ I shouted to thee from the shore, ‘At it with both of them,’ and thou begannest to swim with both thy hands.”  Then the husband said, “Wife, I too know that I was in the sea, from this that a wet fish came into my hand and then slipped out and escaped; thou speakest truly.”  And he loved his wife more than before.

The lady’s thirty-fourth story. 
(From the India Office Ms.)
(Page 399 in Mr. Gibb’s translation.)

They tell that there was a Khoja and he had an exceeding fair son, who was so beautiful that he who looked upon him was confounded.  This Khoja watched over his son right carefully; he let him not come forth from a certain private chamber, and he left not the ribbon of his trousers unsealed.  When the call to prayer was chanted from the minaret, the boy would ask his father saying, “Why do they cry out thus?” and the Khoja would answer, “Someone has been undone and has died, and they are calling out to bury him.”  And the boy believed these words.  The beauty of this boy was spoken of in Persia; and a Khoja came from Persia to Baghdad with his goods and chattels for the love of this boy.  And he struck up a friendship with the boy’s father, and ever gave to him his merchandise at an easy price, and he sought to find out where his son abode.  When the Khoja had discovered that the boy was kept safe in that private chamber, he one day said to his father, “I am about to go to a certain place; and I have a chest whereinto I have put whatsoever I possess of valuables; this I shall send to thee, and do thou take it and shut it up in that chamber where thy son is.”  And the father answered, “Right gladly.”  So the Khoja let build a chest so large that he himself might lie in it, and he put therein wine and all things