Just like the lion on the spout.

For well poor Bessy knows her mother

Must lose her tea, for water's lack,

That Sukey burns—and baby-brother

Must be dryrubb'd with huck-a-back!

[THE STAG-EYED LADY.]

A MOORISH TALE.

Scheherazade immediately began the following story.

I.

Ali Ben Ali (did you never read