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Do noTigta. and tliat it is only the treatment of thk ^siibjedtT-which is indeed admirable^that is peculiarly Scotch t The song informs us that itboat "Martinihaa time" a ^oodwife was Susy .making puddings, and the cold wind*, blpwing through the open doo]\ her husbaxtd desires ntsr.to close it, but she bids him d6i,t'i himself, as her hands were busily occupied i hereupon they have an altercation, ixntu it is^ at length agreed that whichever of them first ispoke should "get up and bar the door," For some time both remain obstinately { silent ; by-and-by two travellers passing by see the. open door, and enter the house. ^Having repeatedly addressed the silent couple without receiving any reply, one says to his com^ panion ;— ' Bo you tak* aff the auld man's beaxd ~ While 1 ku8 the eo^ewif e. jtrpon this the husband starts up, sand in- dtignantly demands to know whether they would daxe to kiss his wife before his face and scald himself with " paddin' bree." The '^d^^^e .tl^en "giVes tluee skips o'er the ilbt^,'' afid exultinjgly e:^claims : — ■ CKidentaDp ye've niDke the f oi«moit woid, aabii ' BIse np and bar the door I The story is also found in the "Ni^ts rit jSbraOparola," one of the early italliany AiOveMsts, in the , last part of novel 1 o^ jl4ght 8, where, however, the busbaiir 'l» victorious, as' is likewise the ci of the husband in three Eastern ve "' ' »-hfeti, by the way, is onhr what we fc*^tj considering the slight regarc fe>jued for women in, m.bst Asiatic ^i,^„ 5 Oav Scotch song seems to be a compound-,, itwi) diJOfe^entArabiananec^oteSjOneof whiel S4 follows, occurs in it tale entitled, "Sulaji'-- ma|i 'Bay and the Three Story Tellers,;;^^ haalush-eater, having married his pfeT cousin, gave the customary feast to their t>'Mi9 and friends. , , ic„,'|fS~~' ' ^When* the festivities' were witj to TelaSeJ|"l|^W.ucted my relatli I neglectip^MWFBefiaswi retum^^toy -Jwife. ' 'Dear cousin,' said my wife to me ;wiien we were alone, 'go and shut the street door.' ' ' it would be strange indeed If "I did,' I replied. ' Am I just made a. bridegrobm, clothed ib. silk, wearing a'shawl and dagger set with - diamonids, and am I to go and shut the door ? , Why, my dear, you are crazy — ^go and shut it youifeelf J ' Oh, indeed 1' she exclaimed, 'ain 1, young, robed in a satin dress, with lace ana precious stones — am I to eo and shut the street door f No, inde^; it 1^ ypii who have become crazy,' and not J. Conie, let us make a bargain;' she continued : 'and let the first who speaks go and fasten the door,' ' Agreed,' I replied, and straight- way I becia^me mute; and she too was silent, while we both sat down, dressed as we' were in our nuptial attire, lool^g at each other, and seated On opposite sofas. •. We remained thiis for one— two hours. During this time thieves happenedtto iraas by, i^nd, seeing' thei door open, entered and "laid Hold of wh^ver tsattHs tottieir ilmaar-*"W'fe'Eiffi«tteo'i»iep8 in the house, but opened not our-mouthsf the robbers camie even into our rooni, and saw us seated, motionless and indifferent to all that took place. They, continued their pillage, therefore, collecting, together everything valuable, and even dragging away the carpets, from beneath us ; they then Ijud hands on our own persons, which they despoiled of every article worth taking, while we, in fear of losing our wager, said not a word. Having thus cleared the house, the thieves departed quietly, but we remained on our seaAs, saying ^ot a syllable. Towards morning a police officer came round on his tour of inspection, and, seeing our door open, walked in. Having searched edl the rooms and found no one, be 'e'n*ered the apartment where we were seated, and 'inquirea the meaning Of what he saw. Neither my wife nor I would condescend to re- ply. The officer /became angry, and ordered our heads to be cut off. The executioner's sword was just about to periEorm its office, when my wife cried out, "-,Siri he is my hus- band, spare him!' 'Oh, ohC I ezclaiined. Overjoyed and clapping my hanojs, 'you have lost the ^ager; go and shut the door.' I then explained the whole affair to the police officer, who shrugged his shoulders and went away, leaving us in a truly dismal plight." , The other Arabian aniecaote is found in Beloss's "Oriental Apologues," translated for him by Dp Busselly from a manuscript which 'the latter had brought from Aleppo. It is somewhat as follows : — A man i comes- home one night and as'ks Ms wife to prepare his supper. She places before him some dry, stale bread. "Why, my dean" s»y« lie, "who on earth can eat such dry, hard bread as this T' "Get up and moisteit it, then," replied the wife. ' No{ you must do itj' said he. "Ill do nothing of .the sort," rejojned. his loving Bpous'e ; "I'm tired, and shan't budge an inch. ent 08, growMigknoise^', ai ..at Ieiu«ai;i4^^i^^^«l;,'-W _ ihsent, ^&t whoeveri^^&M b;^^^^ the first wdrd sttp^ld get up »ud»*isdiatei» the breads' In this mtefestiafl: situatipu they 'i:ehiajlled for a .consi(ier'aple''ti'me, -^tep one. of their- neighbours -^cidentaJly doomed in. ."Good eveninR," said the .viisitoi. They said nothing. "What's '.ttiBrtiatterf'continXiedhe;"wl^yareyousilelitJ". They said nothing. "You are a m£in," sald| he to the hushand; "Trfiy. don't you speak ?" fle said UQthii^ : he kissed his wif^, but the ittan said nothing '■ he^ave him^a. blow on the ol%ek, ifat the man said nothing. IMtated, he at length went , to the K&zi, and com- plained that he could not ma^ie the man speak ; he was committed to prison, still he (said nothing. Nfext morning he was again brought before the Kazj(, still lie sS4d' botMng, The Kazi ordered him to be hanged ^or con- tumacy. "When the sentence was oh the point of being exectited, the wfe appeared, and- in the iuost pitiabU tone exclaimed, "Alas, m^ unfortunate husband !" ' " You devil," said bei "go home and moisten the bread." OPerhaps the germ of the foregoing stories is .to be found in the Indian tal« of uie , "^Fottr Simple' Brdhmans," in which the noodles dispute with each other the palm f ei: . : sxqieriai' stvmdiiy, and, before a, duly constituted Cburt, each in his turn igrsvely relates the liiost foolish thing he has dohe ib the course of his life. The Third Briliman recounts how he one night peevishly told tus wife that all women were baoblers, to which she retorted that she knew some meii who babbled quite as much as women. Tak- ing this remark as nieant for himself in par- ticular, he wagered a betel-leaf (an article of no value) >tbat she would speak before he- did. Totals she: agreed, and both went trf sleep. Next morning they xemaln,ed in bed till an ad- vanced hour; and their, reljitipns, having knocked at their door and reiSeivea no/ie- spohse, sent for a cjirpenter to break it open, fearing tha(- they were both sick— perhaps dead. On the door being broken open, wie relatives, discovering them both m good health, . inquired the reason of such extra- ordinal conduct, but they remained silent; So they concluded that both were possessed -with demons, aii,d sent for a celebrated magician to exorcise them ; but the fee he demanded was so great that .one of the rela- tions/suspecting the r^al «tate of the affair, undertook himself to cure them both of their doAibne'Ss, and thus save all expense. 'Taking a'small bar of .gold, and beating it to a; very ii^ degree, he applied it succssslvely to the Ihiasband's forehead, arms, breast, legs, and the spies of his feet : but all this excruciating ,to*tBie he heroicaily endured without even uttering a C17 of pain. Proceeding n ext .to ^ihe -woman, no sooner had the hot Dajri in contact 'with her tender epidermis thaj Cif_ SijTeamed, " EnoiiSHPnough 1" ''^U^ tvirwhg td her husbatid, ^' There/'^aid shej " is'your leaf of betel." The 'exiiltiag nusband ex- tl3,Imed, " Did I not tell you that you would be' the first to speaK, and tliat you would "prove by your own cc>nduct that I was right bi' saying last feveniug that women are all babblers f' When the 'relations were informed of I the whole affair, "Never," said they", "never /in the whtile world was there seen such folly r , This last tale does not refer to the " barrin' ' o' the door," alttiough it may have formed the '(Mindwork^ tibiMf otltw ,!^J««_S£ ".^teti, tiples." There is a Turkish story to the] lint, in which, ^howe'Ter, only men are the! ihief ^ctors. Itiis one of the "Tales of ths) ?orty Viziers," a work 'written in Imitatidn of | he Book of Sindibid; and, as it has never jefpre appeared, in English, I have much plear sure in presenting the reader with the follow- itae rendering of this curious story by Mr E, J. W. Gi)?b,> author of " Ottoman Poems," from his Complete translation of the work, which he is preparing for publication : — "Some ^ang-eaters*, while out walkiug, found a sequin. They said — ' Let us go to a 'cook, and buy food and eat.' So they went and entered a cook's shop'and said: 'Master, give us a sequin's worth bffood^' The iSopk prepared all kinds . of food, and loaded - a- Eoyter with it ; and the bang-eaters took im ■without the city, where there was a workshop, which they- entered and satdo-wn in,, and the porter deposited the food and went awayj ■ The bang-eaters began to partake of the food, when suddenly que of m^m, said : 'The door is open— stay, do, one of you shut the door, else some other bang-eaters will coine and annoy us ; even though they be riendsthey will do the deeds of foes.' One of them -replied : 'Cro thou and shut the dpor,' and they fell a-quarrelling. At length one said : ' Come, , let , us agree J that whichever of us first speaks or langhs shall rise and fasten the door.' They all agreed to this proposal, and left the food and sat quite still. Suddenly a great number of dogs caine in : not one or the bang-eate>;s stirred or spoke, fpr if one spoke he would, have to rise and shut the door, so they spoke not. The dogs made an end of the food, and ate it all up.' Just then another dog leatit in; from without,, but no food r^nai^ied. Now one of the bang-eaters had partaken of every- thing, snd- some of the food remained about i hid motith and on his beard. That newly- ■ : come dog licked up the particles of food that; were on the bang-eater's breast, and while he was licking up those about his mouth, he took his lip for a piece of meat ia.ild bit it. The bang-eater did not sti^rj for he said within himself, 'They will tell me to shut the door/ But to eas^ his soul he cried 'oughl' inwardly cursing |h|^'g8^4ii Wlien the other ba|^ I,* Buag is » prepanlioo of hemp and coanf asiqm. d Siiu inaifee C&at noli^ev'tbhe;' ;en Jhe door/ He replied— ietition; aE»'wtli^fctl»efoc»ajiH«oae,,*nd Turdundedi what is the use of shutting Thrbugli negUgeiicie and folly jre —is great good dip.' Andj crying, [akV they each went on a diffeirent direction." , ■■ Thus, in all these different tale^, Scottish, ItalianJArabian, Indian;' and Twrfcishr-ftJW ^~™™"''^ almost livery European and Asiatic country possesses one or more talfes i^ similar character — there- is what ' Dr "ilson terms Hie "same fiihda- lutline." . How 1 the incident came the subject of ia, humorous Scotch 9ong, it is not easy to .ascertain. It ;che'»song be eld (wHicai I abubt), it may haye been suggested hy Straparola; if modern, . pro- , bably Belde's Arabian anecdote was its im- ; mediate original. In ^eloe and in Straparola,U however, only one stranger enters the dwell^j ing of the silent coujple, while there, aafe two'! ■ — ~" 'g in our Scotch version, which, adds I think, to the exquisite humour of j "icene. ^ -....,.■_ ^, ai_''. Rvith PATIlirG A FINE, be second novel of Sozzlni, we^are toldi IwagnamBcL Soacazzone, returning from 1 found Jii^Self, when within a ^hbrt ^e'vfrom/SieiVQ^i without nion^y silffl)- 'i j>ay for ^hls. diJ^uer. But detQrmined Tko without' it, he quietly *alkedinto |a '* p ye^i , Signer, I daresay," .for a 'waiter is ne MCiatfca lgse.j;.> " For in^taifC'&jT'i eonihiued SoHB^R , "wtiiatdoes a man for^ teit by killin^^^Br "Ig^s life, cert^ikly^ j Signor," saiMCpewaifer. ••: "iBut if he onlyj ;wouhdsi another badly, no* mortally, -whatj ithem T' y'.lhen ," re^uryeg Ithe waiter^." as iti rmav hJaW MaccordiA g tojthe naturOipf thel |pr«vocation'lBHH'y." f And lastly," con- ' J guest, "if you ianjy 'deal a f eU«w a r^.wi'.the ear, wlwtflo ytwi- t»,y .&* li'85j»s*^eBjioegsJh6j(raite6^'itjB Stenifivres, n6 moie." "TEgnsen* ter to me,? said' S^ae^iszone^' hS ^u^c^l^iagone.r .Wpon th^godd' h6^m ap- Iff* 1 fcnilF iuacazzcme,;tWi ^ Tour b|I|.liere ijae ids your kasBftuRSg tea ; however, if yon-will hsve 'the goodEsss to piy Itic difference to iha Waijteii , as I find rsli.a,i. reach the ;<;Sty; very ples^ajitw ■ before eveniug, it will fie quitei iigW,"«»A. ' eomewliat similar incident pocurs ini . Hjje, burth novel of Arientij^a learned advocate, vho is lined for striking Bis opponent in o^en ourt, aii4""tali:es his thange by repeatipg hsaffefflii^ ' , ,,,■., The Sffli story in Gladwin's " Persian iMooush^^ is to the same e^ect.' ^i.^e^vi^ [was charged at a police caart with' isfeiT S a grocer ip^h his slipper. Tio 'KviiwSi' "''im eight aijuas, upon wiiiGh the ^^ anded him a rupee, and, striking, li!ija£to?t^ _*ead with his^sjipperj aa,i(l:-^''lt g^ifl pUstice, take thou eight aniias, andgiy* jother eight to the grocer." , XeoiWpdiBgio apj ■■'■"■■ •■'"'■^^CApft'-; iwilted HHtT^j" , ', ^\Jii*ii in/w ^^ikcoxSQ the' , jniptaiaon of glvinfe him a blow on tEe bacK. ' Q^he cra^y fellow takes tjtie nraptical yoKer fcefore the Cadi, and makes AJs cotuj^siiAl,' |rhe Cadi fines the accused a small sujai,,as4> 'OS he has not any. coin less, than a diijar,' thel •^-.di gives him leave to go out' f(jf Ghan^' ' ,oi course, he remains so long " " [Worthy . magistrate at last when, the complainant's pAtii usfced, he gives the ^ii a blow, tualJ§'jas»u^!K^m,.^^^his sh and tslls him. that he co-ula wait _ _ . and, as he had himself dJcided ths i>riee of a blow, perhaps h^ would be gocwi !|nough to remain till the young man re- turned, and keap the line to himself. •• -r^ J It is not unlikely that the Italian ntweli] .iJerived the idea of thus " payi^Kb $s^ " tri ' a Fabliau of the Trouveres. Tm> Original both the Western and Eastern versions Efounfi in the Talmud, where it is gravely ^^^ (laied that Abraham once sent his servaM pieazer to Sodom, with greetings to his' |iephew Lot. As Eleazer entered Sie: infam- ous city, he observed a citizen beating a stranger, after having robbed him of .his pro- fpevty. " Shameon thee 1" exclaimed A^Biraham's *.ervanfc; "is it thus yon treat tlie 'strangers ithinyourgates?" Themanrepliedby picking g Eleazer with it on :orce as to cause the face. On seeing tl hold o f Eleazer js fee fori What?" ip a stone, and stiji l&e forehead with s slood to stream dov 3lo9d, the citizen ciiii|| |eman4ecl|t%J anger U-^ " am 1 1& pay tiiee fSfmaxmAivtA me ?" " Such is our Jtuw; reitUTBea the eitaiien. Klea^er Bfttprally refused, t^'wy, Md tte man"ta Saint •ate,i in S^^ra,^ beloie whom a, washerman cocj' .plained t%it the wife of a Br^tunan had beaten •^is jlon^sy, and the ' animalt; in ' running 'away; had fallen pitd a pit and.brpken its htiof.. On the other sidte, the BrAhman complained .that the washerman had beaten his j»»g&ant wife, and she had ia, con- sequence miscarcie^. " Since the donkey's hoc^.'is broken," .said the . sapient Judge, "let Hie Brahman _^^airry, thp donkeys load; tUl &e donkey is again flf; ,l0i* workj and let' the washerrhaa put thp EIriliman's ■wfif e^ tlie same cQnditloiT th9.t :^e was in before his . beat her." In the 5'erslan sl^ry of " The ,^njlff of Bmesga" (the leading iiieident 0% -Which is 'the "pound of fleSh"; of Shsk^espeare.'^ Shy- lock),, 3) muleteer .accuses a qierchant of haTij;ig thrown a stone at his runaway mule and knAdced out an eye, thus xedifcing the animal's value by ojie-hajf ■^before it lost its eye It was worth 1000 dinars. " This>i|g. a very simple case," says the Cadi ; " take a saw, cut the mule in two, give him the blind half, ti/c fwhichhenuist psiyyou. SOQ dinars, and- kent. tbti^.d^her side -to yourself." To this the mulS:*' £6Br'b^fectedjdineethemtde'wissti;ilwortli75Q, dlmafs; soheprefferredputtinjKuawitWiiBloas*, and would give m> the siiit. TTheCadi ad- mitted he was at liberty todo.so; I)uthemast make lamends to the man for such a frivolous and vexatious suit; .stnd the. poor muleteer 'kept his 'Mind mul'e, and had to pay .100^ dinars inthe shape of compensation to the n^efchajat. Another man coinjdaiiied' that the meri " ia healing him toJextricate his.ass oui>| mudia-'smich it had stuck fs|St„ had itstaili "WeU,''say3 the Cadi, " ass, amd let the man pull off hiab ibeastwas accordingly brought, and the «xerted aU his strength to revenge thejnsi which Ijad l)een put upon his la-n aJsTS'hich had carried the Cadi ^ jfo-put up witts^t an i^dignicy, and. sOonl |testlfled'||fcW^^8^SBSfc by several hearty i^swHchlpade : th apuaai faint. ; ,'\ yhen) gtsldeclin tatlbei sa,tis' a, jrtty h? si _ tnatbe^might takeil^'dwli time more he pulled' the harder, kicked„jtiU at last the p anii bjppd, declared merohajit falsisl^T! had. t^d in 100 dinars. hA third accusation was psseferred ag»inst„^^mercha^t by_^ young men of having (jI^peS'Irom^E toST" a house on to the street and killed father, 'who 'was sleeping JseloV'. The CSadi, oi (learning that the CQurtio^^waspf isame height as' (aie^Biiusewom^'W znercha^t had Jumped,, decreed tiiat the mer- ciiaut should sleep on the ground, and :t;h^^ th^c two.,, young men should; gel dpon the roof aijd junipdo'yS'n on him; and that,, Sthe right of blood belpnging equally to thein; 'theymust take leare to jump bot^att once. Sut ,;the complainants deoUnedsucfa a hazardous; jspecies of retaliation. •. . J j^^^This^ last_ incident occurs, among. other old jJest-UooEsi^n "The "Vy^itty and Eutei-taining Exploits of George Buchanan, commonly fcallifd the King's Fool " (edition of 1705), 'where ^tailor, looking ,a,t two drunken f ellows -figat- iiidg in the street, feU* out of , the 'window and 'killed an, (Jld man, whose spn causes him t<^be iapprehen^ed on a charge of ninrder. When the trial came on, the jury could not (urinz in a verdict of wilful murd^, neither could Qiey MM^iyhlm ; sp tl^ey referred the case' t.o the '^'^'^'"'l^-and the judges jeferrftd it €6 l^and the King, asked Gepr^e's ■-^Jiid that the tailpr should stahd i pld man's son fall on him. Cornell University Library PN 931.C64 1887 suppl. 3 1924 026 930 515 . -»w»r^,<^«'r,i%ls