The Arabian Nights

Four Men Say They Killed Him

Baghdad 5, The Night of the Hunchback

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In one city there was a hunchback who made people laugh with songs and jokes. This night does not happen in Baghdad but in that city. Shahrazad has taken out a night from across the sea.

One evening a tailor and his wife meet him in the street and bring him home. It was a good table and the laughing did not stop. There was fish on it.

Busy making them laugh, he kept being handed more food. Swallowing one piece he suddenly cannot get his breath. A moment later he had gone down where he sat.

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