PARKE, AUSTIN, AND LIPSCOMB, INC.
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This Volume is one of a complete set of the Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, consisting of fourteen volumes. In Volume I of the series will be found a certificate as to the limitation of the edition and the registered number of this set.

Copyright, 1917,
Parke, Austin, and Lipscomb, Inc.


THE SLAVE GIRL OF ABU ZAYD.

"Behold I had a slave girl, elegant of shape,

Smooth of cheek, patient to labor."

AL HARIRI, The Eighth Assembly.