Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959, Dulac, Edmund, 1882-1953, ill · London : Hodder and Stoughton · leaf 34
a. Why, it was but the other day that at thissame hour I saw well enough to stitch up a deadbody in a place where it was certainly no lighter. Stitch up a dead body! cried the robber,in pretended amazement, concealing his joy atthis sudden intelligence. Surely you mean in itswinding sheet, for how… … FORTY THIEVES care to ; only show me the house where lay thebody that you stitched. Baba Mustapha eyedthe gold longingly. Would that I could, hereplied; but alas ! I went to it blindfold.1 Well, said the robber, I have heard that ablind man remembers his road ; perhaps, thoughseeing you might lose…
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