The Arabian Nights

What Came Out of the Chest

Baghdad 3, The Three Apples

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A fisherman was casting his net by the river at Baghdad. What came up in it that day was not a fish. It was a heavy chest with a lock on it.

Two men in merchants’ clothes were standing there. The caliph Harun al-Rashid, and Jafar who served him. They paid the price and bought the chest.

When it was opened there was a person inside. A young woman lay wrapped in cloth, dead. The caliph’s face went hard where he stood.

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