Next morning, as the kazi and his son-in-law were taking their coffee together, in the house of the former, they heard a strange noise in the street, and, descending to ascertain the cause of the disturbance, found that it proceeded from a crowd of low fellows--mountebanks, and such like gentry, who had assembled with all sorts of musical instruments, with which they kept up a deafening din, at the same time dancing and capering about, and loudly felicitating themselves on the marriage of their pretended kinsman with the kazi's daughter. The young merchant acknowledged their compliments by throwing handfuls of money among the crowd, which caused a renewal of the dreadful clamour. When the noise had somewhat subsided, the kazi, hitherto dumb from astonishment, turned to his son-in-law, and demanded to know the meaning of such a scene before his mansion. The merchant replied that the leaders of the crowd were his kinsfolk, although his father had abandoned the fraternity and adopted commercial pursuits. He could not, however, disown his kindred, even for the sake of the kazi's daughter. On hearing this the judge was beside himself with rage and mortification, exclaiming: "Dog, and son of a dog! what dirt is this you have made me eat?" The merchant reminded him that he was now his son-in-law; that his daughter was his lawful wife; declaring that he would not part with her for untold wealth. But the kazi insisted upon a divorce and returned the merchant his ten purses. In the sequel, the young merchant, having ascertained the parentage of the clever damsel, obtained her in marriage, and lived with her for many years in happiness and prosperity.[33] [33] This story has been taken from Arab Shah into the Breslau printed Arabic text of the _Thousand and One Nights_, where it is related at great length. The original was rendered into French under the title of "Ruses des Femmes" (in the Arabic _Ked-an-Nisa_, Stratagems of Women) by Lescallier, and appended to his version of the Voyages of Sindbad, published at Paris in 1814, long before the Breslau text of _The Nights_ was known to exist. It also forms part of one of the Persian Tales (_Hazar u Yek Ruz_, 1001 Days) translated by Petis de la Croix, where, however, the trick is played on the kazi, not on a young merchant. IV ASHAAB THE COVETOUS--THE STINGY MERCHANT AND THE HUNGRY BEDOUIN--THE SECT OF SAMRADIANS--THE STORY-TELLER AND THE KING--ROYAL GIFTS TO POETS--THE PERSIAN POET AND THE IMPOSTOR--"STEALING POETRY"--THE RICH MAN AND THE POOR POET.