Unknown, Tales from the ArabicVolume 2… (1901)
“ Quoth we, “Show us the stuffs.” So he carried us to a place wherein was a pit, beside the water-wheel, and digging there, brought out the stolen goods, with not a stitch of them missing. So we took them and carried the keeper to the prefecture, where we stripped him and beat him with palm-rods till he confessed to thefts galore. Now I did this by way of mockery against my comrades, and it succeeded.’ [4] ↑ i.e. required to find the thief or make good the loss. ↑ i.e. the parties aggrieved. ↑ Or irrigation-work, usually a bucket-wheel, worked by oxen. ↑ Or “came true.” ”
