understanding not what was toward, bade one of the slave-girls
"Go see what is this man who crieth out and what he crieth." So
the girl went and looking, saw one crying out, "Ho, who will
barter an old lamp for a new lamp?" with the boys after him,
laughing at him; so she returned and told her mistress, saying,
"O my lady, this man crieth, 'Ho! who will barter an old lamp for
a new lamp?' and the boys are following him and laughing at him;"
and the Lady Bedrulbudour laughed also at this marvel. Now
Alaeddin had forgotten the lamp in his pavilion, [FN#565] without
locking it up in his treasury [as was his wont], and one of the
girls had seen it; so she said to the princess, "O my lady,
methinketh I have seen an old lamp in my lord Alaeddin's
pavilion; let us barter it with this man for a new one, so we may
see an his speech be true or leasing." And [FN#566] the princess
said to her, "fetch the lamp whereof thou speakest." Now the Lady
Bedrulbudour had no knowledge of the lamp and its properties,
neither knew she that this it was which had brought Alaeddin her
husband to that great estate, and it was the utmost of her desire
to prove and see the wit of this man who bartered new for old,
nor was any one aware of the Maugrabin enchanter's craft and
trickery. So the slave-girl went up into Alaeddin's pavilion and
returned with the lamp to the Lady Bedrulbudour, who bade the Aga
of the eunuchs [FN#567] go down and exchange it for a new one; so
he took it and going down, gave it to the Maugrabin and took of
him a new lamp, with which he returned to the princess, who
examined it and finding it new and real, fell to laughing at the
Maugrabin's [lack of] wit. Meanwhile, when the enchanter had
gotten the lamp and knew it for that of the Treasure, he thrust
it forthwith into his sleeve [FN#568] and leaving the rest of the
lamps to the folk who were in act to barter of him, set off