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and his disciples and they all said by the blessing of God the queen would certainly recover from her malady When the servant of Gheti Afroz saw that Melech Mahommed was transformed into an ass that took sticks and beat him and drove him out of the apartments of the queen God a mercy thought he What an unlucky job is this I have brought on my own head What shall I do now, or what scheme I fall upon" Having no other resource, he trudged off to the city and coming to his uncle’s house attempted to enter The Chobolans presently saluted him with their cudgels and, having thrashed him well drove him away It was then he felt all the disgrace of his ass’s shape and being quite at a loss to which hand to turn himself, he consoled himself with the idea that.

       Whatever by a friend is thrown
       Is lucky, be it stick or stone.

He then took the road to his own house, when who should he encounter but his own servants again, who ran for sticks to beat him, but there the ass had the heels of them, and scapering nimbly into his own house he tumbled

himself