The Arabian Nights

The Man Who Sold His Eyes

Lamp 6, Baba Abdalla and His Two Pots

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Three long-bearded men pause in the street, and the one in the middle is speaking.
Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights, Ward and Lock, 1865 (drawings by A. B. Houghton and Thomas Dalziel, engraved by the Dalziel brothers)Original

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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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