celebrate the bridal and hold high festival in all the kingdom.
Then he abode upon the throne of his kingship, judging and
commanding and forbidding, whilst his bride became queen of
Bassora; and after a little his mother died. So he made her
funeral obsequies [FN#142] and mourned for her; after which he
lived with his bride in all content till there came to them the
Destroyer of Delights and the Sunderer of Societies.






ALAEDDIN AND THE ENCHANTED LAMP. [FN#143]



There [FN#144] was [once] in a city of the cities of China a man,
a tailor and poor, and he had a son by name Alaeddin, who was
perverse and graceless from his earliest childhood. When he came
to ten years of age, his father would fain have taught him his
own craft, for that, because he was poor, he could not spend
money upon him to have him taught [another] trade or art [FN#145]
or the like; [FN#146] so he carried him to his shop, that he might
teach him his craft of tailoring; but, forasmuch as the lad was
perverse and wont still to play with the boys of the
quarter, [FN#147] he would not sit one day in the shop; nay, he
would watch his father till such time as he went forth the place
to meet a customer [FN#147] or on some other occasion, when he
would flee forth incontinent and go out to the gardens with the