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Outline: There lived a tailor in Baghdad ……….. met a hunchback …………..invited him to his house ………. his wife served dinner ………….. a large piece of fish stuck in throat ………. hunchback died ……….the dead body to a Jewish physician………….. set the dead man against the wall ………..the physician struck against hunchback’s body in the dark …………….physician thought that the sick man died with his blow ………………placed the dead body in the terrace of his neighbour …………..a steward and a Muslim…………… the steward thought a thief was hiding ……………… struck with a great mallet………… thought he killed the hunchback …………….. took the body to market place ……………..placed the dead hunchback there …………….soon came a Christian clerk in intoxication………… struck him ……………. the watchman handed him over to the chief police magistrate………………. he was to be hanged ……………..when the rope was put around his neck ………………. came running the Muslim steward ……………. confessed ……………..the rope was put in his neck………….. when the Muslim steward was to be hanged……………. came the Jewish physician running ……………….confessed and the rope was put around his neck …………… in the end came the tailor ………………. the unique case was presented before the king ……………… pleased that so many honest and sincere people lived in his kingdom…………….. set all of them free
Ans. The Story of the Hunchback
In ancient times there lived a tailor in Baghdad. When he was returning home, he met a hunchbacked man. His aspect was such as to excite laughter even in the angry and dispel grief. The tailor invited the hunchback to his house to enjoy the pleasure of gazing at him. The tailor’s wife served him a large piece of fish and asked him to swallow at once. The hunchback swallowed it. It got stuck in his throat and he died at once. They took the dead body to the house of a physician who was a Jew. They set the dead man up against the wall and went out. The physician came out to see the sick man in haste. In the dark, his foot struck against the lifeless hunchback. He thought that his foot made him fall down the stairs and die. He was frightened. He wanted to dispose of a dead body. He went to the terrace and threw the dead hunchback into the house of his Muslim neighbour. When the Muslim steward went up, he saw a man standing in the corner. He took him for a thief and struck him with a great mallet. The dead body of the hunchback fell down and the steward found him dead. The Muslim steward took the dead body to the market place and placed it by the side of a shop and retired. Soon after there came a Christian clerk in a state of intoxication. So when he saw the hunchback standing there, he Mik; concluded that he intended to harm him. He struck him on the neck and attempted to throttle him. As he was doing it, the watchman came. He bound his hands behind him and took him to the chief police magistrate. “Why did you kill him?” said the magistrate. He was sentenced to death. The executioner threw his rope around the neck of the Christian. When he was to hang him, the Muslim steward came running. He confessed that it was he who had killed the hunchback. The executioner put the rope around the neck of the Muslim steward. Then came running the Jewish physician. He confessed that it was he who killed the hunchback. The rope was put around the neck of the Jewish physician. He was about to be hanged when the tailor came and pleaded guilty. He requested to liberate the Jew. The matter was reported to the king. He was surprised that such true and honest persons were still alive in his kingdom. They would not let others die for their sins. He was pleased and granted freedom to all.
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