She replied, "Men came who had dreamed a dream that we should have a beautiful male child of great good fortune, and as the sacrifice of a black ox was necessary to bring it true, I gave ours to them."
Omari then said to his wife, "You are a fool. Now I am going out to search for as great a fool as you are. If I cannot find any one who is your equal in folly, I shall leave you; you will cease to be my wife."
So Omari took his donkey and rode away till he came to the house of a certain rich man, and this house had a verandah beneath it. Omari got off his donkey, and as he stood there, a woman, one of the slaves of the household, passed in, and said to him, "Master, where do you come from?"
Omari replied, "I come from the next world."
Then was that slave very astonished, and she went upstairs to her mistress and said to her, "There, below in the verandah, is a man who comes from the next world."
"Is that indeed so?" asked the mistress.
"It is indeed true, and if you doubt me ask him yourself, for he is there below," said the slave.
So the mistress sent her slave down to call Omari up into the house, and she came to him and said, "The mistress asks you to come upstairs."
Omari replied, "I cannot come upstairs; I am afraid, because it is a stranger's house."
