1. One evening, as the sun was setting, some travelers stayed to rest under s clump of trees, and, loosening their camels, set them to graze. It happily that one of the animals entered a melon-field, and that a melon stuck in its throat. The owner, seeing this and fearing to lose the animal, tied a blanket round its throat, and then struck the place with all his might. Instantly the melon broke in the throat of the camel, and it was then easily swallowed. A certain man who had just come up, looking on and observing this proceeding, shoulder his bundle, and, going to the next village, pretended that he was a doctor. Became cute 3.So they seized him, being minded to carry him before the king. One of them, however, said: "She was a very old woman, who must have died shortly in any case. Let us therefore compel the wretch to dig her grave, and then we can beat him and let him go." They took him and set him to work, but the ground was so stiff and hard that he made slow progress. "If you don't dig it," they said, "before the king you shall go, and then you will be hanged."
