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627-636

  • He said, “If you want to buy sugar, my balance-weight is clay.”
  • He (the customer) said, “I am requiring sugar for an urgent affair: let the balance-weight be whatever you wish.”
  • To himself he said, “What does the weight matter to one that eats clay? Clay is better than gold.”
  • As the dallála (go-between) who said, “O son, I have found a very beautiful new bride (for you). 630
  • (She is) exceedingly pretty, but there is just one thing, that the lady is a confectioner's daughter.”
  • “(All the) better,” said he; “if it is indeed so, his daughter will be fatter and sweeter.”
  • “If you have no (proper) weight and your weight is of clay, this is better and better: clay is the fruit (desired) of my heart.”
  • He (the druggist) placed the clay, because of its being ready (to his hand), in one scale of the balance instead of the (proper) weight;
  • Then, for the other scale, he was breaking with his hand the equivalent amount of sugar. 635
  • Since he had no pick-axe, he took a long time and made the customer sit waiting.