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have ſerved me this trick twice already; but if you do ſo the third time, I will be hanged: then, being a luſty fellow, he threw his ſack over his ſhoulders, and forcing him into it in ſpite of his teeth, tied the mouth of it with a ſtrong rope, and running directly to the bridge, flung in poor Babeken, ſack and all: and walking a pretty while thereabouts for fear the crump should get out again to cheat him of his reward, but hearing no noiſe returned to the cutlereſs to demand the other two ſequins which ſhe had promiſed him. Do not fear his coming any more, ſaid he, the moment he let his foot into the houſe; the wag had a mind to make his ſport of me for ever; I think he only pretended to be dead, that he might make me trot my legs off; but I have done his buſineſs for him now ſo thorughly that he will never come to your houſe any more, I will engage for him.
Nohoud, ſurpriſed at this diſcourſe, deſired him to tell her what he meant by it. Why, replied he, I had again thrown this damned crump into the Tygris, when I was returning to you for my money, I met him again about five or ſix ſtreets off, with a lanthorn in his hand, ſinging and roaring under pretence of being drunk I was ſo horrid enraged with him, that laying hold of him I forced him into my ſack in ſpite of all his reſiſtance, tied it with a cord, and ſo threw him into the Tygris, from whence I believe he can never return, unleſs he be the Daggial * himſelf,
Babeken's wife was in an unparalleled ſurpriſe at this news. Ah! ſirrah, ſaid ſhe, what have you have now drowned my huſband; and have you the impudence to think I will you done?* The Daggal is the Antichrist of the Mahometanas
