and sultana, with the nurse and eunuch, then all went to see for themselves, and found both apparently dead. The caliph now said he would give 1000 pieces of gold to know which died first, when Abou Hassan cried, “Commander of the faithful, it was I who died first.” The trick was found out, the caliph nearly died with laughter, and the jest proved a little mine of wealth to the court favorite.--_Arabian Nights._ =Sleepers.= (See SEVEN SLEEPERS.) =Sleeping Beauty= (_The_), a lady who sleeps in a castle a hundred years, during which time an impenetrable wood springs up around the castle; but being at length disenchanted by a young prince, she marries him. The brothers Grimm have reproduced this tale in German. The old Norse tale of Brynhild and Sigurd seems to be the original of _The Sleeping Beauty_.--Perrault, _Contes du Temps_ (“La Belle au Bois Dormant,” 1697). (Tennyson has poetized this nursery story.) =Sleepner=, the horse of Odin. =Slender=, one of the suitors of “sweet Anne Page.” His servant’s name is Simple. Slender is a country lout, cousin of Justice Shallow.--Shakespeare, _Merry Wives of Windsor_ (1596). =Slick Mose=, idiot boy, yet with animal instinct and dogged fidelity enough to make him signally useful to those to whom he is attached. “Della sets a heap by Slick Mose’s notions in things,” said the Colonel. “Well, there’s no tellin’ ’bout these half-witted creatures. And more people _are_ half-witted than is suspected.”--Octave Thanet, _Expiation_ (1890). =Slick= (_Sam_), Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton, of Nova Scotia, author of _The Clockmaker_ (1837). _Sam Slick_, a Yankee clockmaker and pedlar, wonderfully ’cute, a great observer, full of quaint ideas, droll wit, odd fancies, surprising illustrations, and plenty of “soft sawder.” Judge Haliburton wrote the two series called _Sam Slick, or the Clockmaker_ (1837). =Sliderskew= (_Peg_), the hag-like housekeeper of Arthur Gride. She robs her master of some deeds, and thereby brings on his ruin.--C. Dickens, _Nicholas Nickleby_ (1838). =Sligo= (_Dr._), of Ireland. He looks with contempt on his countryman, Dr. Osasafras, because he is but a _parvenu_. Osasafras? That’s a name of no note. He is not a Milesian, I am sure. The family, I suppose, came over the other day with Strongbow, not above seven or eight hundred years ago.--Foote, _The Devil Upon Two Sticks_ (1768). =Slingsby= (_Jonathan Freke_), John Francis Waller, author of _The Slingsby Papers_ (1852), etc. _Slingsby_ (_Philip_), pseudonym of N. P. Willis, in the series of essays and tales published as _The Slingsby Papers_. Chief among these is _Love in the Library_ (184-).