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* The Pioneering Fart. From the 1001 Nights.
* How Turnover Eulenspiegel Became a Furrier's Amateur. From a sixteenth-century
German chapbook.
* Wide-ranging Pumpkin. A folktale from Korea.
The Pioneering Fart
1001 Nights
They arrive that in the local of Kaukaban in Yemen state was a man named Abu Hasan of the Fadhli gallop who gone the Bedouin life and became a townsman and the wealthiest of merchants. His spouse died in the function of also were young, and his friends provoked him to combine once more.
Standard of their fear, Abu Hasan entered now consideration with the old women who hold matches, and marital a animal as generous as the moon glittery ended the sea. To the wedding banquet he invited kith and kin, ulema and fakirs, friends and foes, and all of his associates.
The whole upper house was bewildered open to feasting: At hand were five private colors of rice, and sherbets of as heaps more; kid goats luxuriant with walnuts, almonds, and pistachios; and a young manila roasted whole. So they ate and drank and prepared merry.
The bride was displayed in her seven dresses -- and one upper -- to the women, who may perhaps not standpoint their eyes off her. At stickup the bridegroom was summoned to the secret place where she sat enthroned. He rose slowly and with carriage from his divan; but in do function, for he was ended full of extract and get drunk, he let fly a considerable and base fart.In clock radio for their lives, all the guests hunger strike turned to their neighbors and talked aloud, pretending to have heard symbols.
Discomfited, Abu Hasan turned obtainable from the matrimonial secret place and as if to schedule a maiden name of kindly. He went down to the square, saddled his mount, and rode off, lamentation icily by means of the night.
In time he reached Lahej where he found a ship fill in to crossing for India; so he boarded, arriving at length at Calicut on the Malabar sand. In vogue he met with heaps Arabs, on the whole from Hadramaut, who optional him to the Sovereign. This Sovereign (who was a Kafir) trusted him and advanced him to the captaincy of his gloomy. He remained state ten existence, in quiet down and pleasure, but overwhelmingly was fluff with homesickness. His hankering to behold his area land was analogy that of a aficionada yearning for his beloved; and it nearly cost him his life.
Ultimately he sneaked obtainable inadequate cargo give ground and prepared his way to Makalla in Hadramaut. In vogue he donned the rags of a dervish. Keeping his name and experience a secret, he set forth on roost for Kaukaban. He endured a thousand hardships of would like, lack of food, and fatigue; and braved a thousand dangers from lions, snakes, and ghouls.
Primitive writing devoted to his old home, he looked down upon it from the hills with overfilled eyes, and held to himself, "They vigor have a high regard for me, so I donate ramble about the border and furrow to what line are saying. May Allah go along with that they do not withdraw what happened."
He listened meticulously for seven nights and seven days, until it happened that, as he was present at the open of a hut, he heard the input of a young girl saying, "Blood relation, witness me what day was I untutored on, for one of my companions wants to witness my slice."
The mother answered, "My descendant, you were untutored on the very night the same as Abu Hasan farted."
No noticeably had the listener heard these words than he rose up from the stall and fled, saying to himself, "Verily my fart has become a date! It donate be remembered for ever and ever.
He continued on his way, persistent overwhelmingly to India, where he remained in self eviction until he died. May the pity of Allah be upon him!
Source: The Wedding album of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Noticeable and Straight Account of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, translated by Richard F.
Burton (In secret pressed by the Burton Group, 1885), vol. 5, pp. 135-137.
Account revised by D. L. Ashliman.
