Unknown, Tales from the ArabicVolume 1… (1901)
“ As for the man, he committed his affair to God the Most High, relying upon Him for deliverance, and said in himself, ‘What is this affair?’ Then he did away the leaves from himself and rising, saw great plenty of men’s bones there, of those whom the lion had devoured. He looked again and saw a heap of gold lying alongside a girdle; [2] whereat he marvelled and gathering up the gold in his skirts, went forth of the thicket and fled in affright at hazard, turning neither to the right nor to the left, in his fear of the lion ”
