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  • When a man taps a new pot with his hand at the time when he is buying it, he detects the cracked one (by its sound).
  • دست بر دیگ نوی چون زد فتی  ** وقت بخریدن بدید اشکسته را 

  • He (one of the three brothers) said (to the cadi), “I know a man at once by his mouth (speech); and if he do not speak, I know him within three days.” 4900
  • گفت دانم مرد را در حین ز پوز  ** ور نگوید دانمش اندر سه روز 

  • The second said, “I know him if he speak, and if he do not speak, I engage him in conversation.”
  • وآن دگر گفت ار بگوید دانمش  ** ور نگوید در سخن پیچانمش 

  • He (the cadi) said, “(But) if he has (already) heard of this device (of yours), he will close his lips and take refuge in silence.”
  • گفت اگر این مکر بشنیده بود  ** لب ببندد در خموشی در رود 

  • Parable.
  • مثل 

  • The case is like that of the mother who said to her child, “If a ghost come to you in the night,
  • آنچنان که گفت مادر بچه را  ** گر خیالی آیدت در شب فرا 

  • Or if in a graveyard and frightful place you behold a black bogle full of rage,
  • یا بگورستان و جای سهمگین  ** تو خیالی بینی اسود پر ز کین 

  • Keep a stout heart and rush at it, and immediately it will turn its face away from you.” 4905
  • دل قوی دار و بکن حمله برو  ** او بگرداند ز تو در حال رو 

  • “(But),” said the child, “suppose the devilish bogle's mother has said this (same thing) to it;
  • گفت کودک آن خیال دیووش  ** گر بدو این گفته باشد مادرش 

  • (If) I rush at it, by its mother's orders it will fall on my neck: what shall I do then?
  • حمله آرم افتد اندر گردنم  ** ز امر مادر پس من آنگه چون کنم 

  • You are teaching me to stand firm, (but) the ugly bogle has a mother too.”
  • تو همی‌آموزیم که چست ایست  ** آن خیال زشت را هم مادریست