Lamp 6, Baba Abdalla and His Two Pots
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At a corner in Baghdad sat a man who could not see. He caught at everyone passing and asked one thing. Strike me once on the cheek before you put down a coin.
Most of the people who heard it walked on. Unstruck, he would not take the coin out of a hand. Harun al-Rashid, passing that way, saw it and had him brought in.
The caliph asked why he would ask for such a thing. The man, whose name was Baba Abdalla, began to answer. The first thing he said was that he had once driven eighty camels.
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