The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 292
ppedhim, saying: Sir,pray forgive me ; I de-sire you would eithergive me a box on theear, or take your almsback again, for I can-not receive it but onthat condition, with-out breaking a sol-emn oath which I have sworn to God; and if youknew the reason, you would agree with me thatthe punishment is… … When they came into the town, they found in asquare a great crowd of spectators, looking at ayoung man who was mounted on a mare, which he drove and urgedfull speed round theplace, spurring andwhipping the poorcreature so barbai-ously that she was allover sweat and blood.The caliph, amazedat the…
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