পাতা:সদগুণ ও বীর্য্যের ইতিহাস.djvu/১৯

D 16 J been in a deep sleep, said Solyman, not to have heard the robber. I did indeed sleep soundly, replied the woman, but it was in the confidence that you watched for the public safety. The Emperor, far from resenting her specch, made her ample amends for her loss. ,酸 9. Hakim the Caliph. Hakim, the Caliph wishing to enlarge his palace, protsed to purchase from a poor woman, a piece of ground that lay contiguous to it, but as she refused to part with the inheritance of her foresathers, his officers seized the ground for the Caliph's use. The poor woman immediately complained of this outrage to the chief magistrate of the city who foresaw great difficulty in the affair. He therefore took a large empty sack, and mounting his horse, rode to the Caliph and besought permission to fill it with earth from his newly acquired garden. Hakim showed some surprize at the request, but allowed him to fill the sack. When this was completed, he