Document 262; Page 261

I will have nothing to do with him Let him wear his ass hide to the end of time, till death strip it over his ears The servants of Melech Mahommed were quite at a nonplus and returned all in the dumps to their master the ass who finding there was no remedy resigned himself to fate like an ass of patience

       Disasters on my head let fall
       Thy humble slave shall bear them all
       And unrepiningly submit
       To all Majestic power deems fit.

Nine weary months he remained in this situation, and all the while his uncle made not the least enquiry after him.

The visit of King Anu Shah to the Place of the Peries.

It happened by chance one night that Anu Shah King of that country was carousing on the terraced roof of his places when the Perizadis with the sound of mirth and exquisite music appeared on the face of the sky; strange and splendid company such as had never else been seen. He beheld Gheti Afroz in splendid array seated on a throne composed of a single polished jacinth, a vizir beautiful as the Moon

with