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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE HISTORY OF BABA ABDALLA, THE BLIND MAN. I Was born at Bagdad, and possessed some inheritance from my father and mother, who both died within a few days of each other. Although I was but little advanced in life, I did not, as young men usually do, waste my fortune in a short time by idle vicious expenses. On the contrary, I was always attentive to increase it, by my industry, with all the care and trouble I could bestow. At length I became rich enough to possess, of my own, fourscore camels, which I let to the caravan-merchants; and which produced me large sums every journey I made in different parts of your majesty's extended empire, whither J accompanied them. Thus successful, and with an earnest desire to become still richer, one day as I was returning from Balsora with my camels unladen, which I had conducted thither with goods to be embarked for India, and when I had turned them off tofeed in a spot far distant from any habitation, and where abundant pasture had induced me to halt, a dervise, who was going on foot to Balsora, came up and sat down near me, to refresh himself after his fatigue. I asked him whence he came, . and whither he was going; he put the same ques tions to me; and after we had mutually satisfied each other's curiosity, we produced our provisions in common, and eat them together. During our repast, after having conversed upon many indifferent things, the dervise told me, that, in a place not far off, he knew of a treasure of immense value, so large and rich, that if my fourscore camels should be all laden from thence with gold and jewels, it would seem as if nothing had been taken away. This good intelligence at once surprised and delighted me. I was quite beside myself with the joy I felt. I did not think the dervise capable of imposing ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217687386 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217687385 |
| Weight | 0.69 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.48 In |
| List Price | $19.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 208 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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