"By Allah, not so!" said the Caliph; "I will buy them myself. And your
granddaughter, who I take it on your word is a very charming young lady,
I give with her dower of eleven thousand pieces of gold to the son of
Giafer."
The Grand Vizier and Abdurrahman bowed and touched their foreheads in token of entire submission to the will of the Prince of the Faithful.
The Caliph then dismissed them with the injunction to make preparations for solemnizing the marriage as soon as possible.
The Caliph and the First Jar of Ointment.
FIRST ADVENTURE:
THE CALIPH AND THE EMIR.
A few days after the marriage of Abdurrahman's daughter with the son of the Grand Vizier, the Caliph ordered his treasurer to bring him the two jars of ointment which he had bought of Abdurrahman.
When he saw them they were so very small that he could not avoid an exclamation of surprise.
"By Allah," said Haroun, "but the old man has had a good price!"
Although the jars were both very small, yet they were not of the same size, one being half as large again as the other.