drank a little coffee now and then, wich a slave poured out for him, and always stroked his beard contentedly when he had relished it.

21. In short, one could perceive from the look of the kaliph, that he felt quite happy.

22. About this hour one could very well speak to him, because he then was always very gentle and affable." 23. For this reason, his grand vizier, Mansor, called upon him every day about this time.

24. Now, that afternoon he came too, but looked a very toughtful, quite contrary to his usual custom.d

25. The kaliph took the pipe out of his mouth", and said, "Why do you exhibit such a thoughtful countenance, grand vizier?”

26. The grand vizier crossed his arms over his bosom, bowed before his master, and replied. "

e

27. "Sire! Wether I exhibit a thoughtful countenance, I do not know; but down there, at the palace, stands a pedlare; he has such beautiful things, that it vexes me not to have much superfluous money."

e

dhie und da. • Sklave, m. feinschenken. &streichen. say, to himself the beard. zufrieden. I relish it es schmeckt mir.

21. a furz.

i

to perceive from the look of one es einem ansehen.

I am quite happy, es ist mir ganz wohl.

22. a mild. bleutselig.

23. besuchen.

b

24. a aussehen. gedankenvoll. ©gegen. dusual custom, Gewohnheit. 25. a thun. Mund, m. machen. Gesicht, n.

B

b

26. kreuzweis schlagen. ↳Arm, m. (pl.—e). ©Brust, f. a sich verneigen.

erwiedern.

b

e

27. ob. say, there down unten. bei. a Palast, m. Krämer. färgern. überflüssig.

g

28. The kaliph, who for some time had wished to give some pleasure to his grand vizier, sent down his black slave, in order to fetch up the pedlar.

29. Soon the slave came back with the pedlar. This was a little clumsy a man, dark brown in the face, and in raggedd attire.e

30. He carried a chesta, in which he had all sorts of merchandise, pearls and rings, richly inlaid pistols, goblets and combs.f

e

31. The kaliph and his vizier looked at everything, and the former at length bought some beautiful pistols for himself and Mansor, but for the wife of the vizier a comb.

a

32. When the pedlar was already going to shut his chest again, the kaliph perceived a little drawer ̊, and asked, if there were any mored merchandize.

33. The pedlar pulled out this drawer, and showed in it a box with a blackish powder, and a paper with singulare writing, which neither the kaliph nor Mansor could read.

34. "I once got these two articles from a merchant who found them in Mecca in the street," said the pedlar, “I do not know what they contain; they are at your service® for a small prices; I can surely1 doi nothing with them3.”

a

28. a lange schon. bto give pleasure, Freude machen. ©heraufholen. 29. a dick. schwarzbraun. cim. dzerlumpt.

b

30. a Kasten, m. b

e

Anzug, m.

с

Þallerhand, which is indeclinable. beschlagen.

a Pistole, f. Becher, m. Kamm, m. (pl. Kämme).

с

32. azumachen. bfehen. Schublade, f. dnoch.

а

33. a herausziehen. Dose, f. schwärzlich. a Pulver, n. efon=

35. The kaliph, who liked to have old manuscripts b in his library, even if he could not read them, bought the writing and the box, and dismissed the pedlar.

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36. The kaliph, however, thought he would like to know what the writing contained, and asked the vizier if he did not know somebody who could decipher it.

b

37. "Most gracious lord and master," answered the latter, "near the great mosque there lives a man: he is called Selim the Learned: he understands all languages: let him come: he perhaps knows these mysterious characters."

38. The learned Selim was soon fetched. "Selim," said the kaliph to him, "Selim, it is saida you are very learned; look now a little into this writing whether you can read it.

b

d

39. "If you can read it, then you get a new holiday dress a from me: if you cannot, then you get twelve boxes on your ear, and twenty-five stripes on the soles of your feet', since people call you then without reasoni Selim the learned."

40. Selim bowed and said: "Thy will be done, Sire."

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35. gern haben. Handschrift, f. Bibliothek, f.

e

a wenn er auch.

37. agnädig. bei. Moschee, f. gelehrt. verstehen. geheimnißvoll. Zug, m. (pl. Züge).

38.

g

say, one says. b einmal.

39. a Festkleid, n. Þadd, it. ©Ohrfeige, f. box on the ear. aStreich, m. (pl.—e) ©auf, Acc. Fußsohle, f. sole of the foot.

iumsonst.

h

weil. man.

For a long time he looked at the writing, but suddenly he exclaimed: "This is Latin, Sire, or I will be hangede!" 41. "Say, what is in it," commanded the kaliph, "if it be Latin." Selim began to translated:

42. "Man, who findest this, grace.c Whoever takes a pinch

praise Allah for his

of the powder in this box, and says 'Mutabor,' he can transform himself into any animal, and understands besides the language of animals.

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43. "If he wants a to return again to his humain form, let him bow three times towards the East and pronounce that word."

f

44. "But take care, whe you are transformed, that you do not laugh; else the magic word disappears entirely from your memory, and you remain an animal.”

45. When Selim the learned had thus read, the kaliph was pleased a beyond measure."

с

46. He made a the learned man take an oath b not to say anything about the secret to any one, gave him a beautiful garment, and dismissed him.

d

b betrachten to look at. plöglich. ausrufen. say, I will let myself be hanged.

überseßen.

du.

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Gnade, f. schnupfen

41. asay, stands. befehlen. say, is. 42. a Mensch. bsay, who thou der

to take a pinch. evon. fverwandeln. sjeder. hauch.

b

d

43. a will. zurückkehren. wieder. d take Subjunctive Present. egegen. faussprechen.

44. a to take care sich in Acht nehmen. schwinden. caus. dächtniß, n.

a Ge

45. vergnügt. b büber. Maß, n. (pl.—e), but beyond measure is a standing phrase, über die Maßen, from an old Nom. die Maße.

ค

d

46. a lassen. to take an oath schwören. ©etwas. Geheimniß, n. e irgend einer. £Kleid, n.

47. To the grand vizier, however, he said: "That I call making a bargain', Mansor! How rejoiced I am to be once an animal! To-morrow morning come to me.

48. "We shall then go into the field, take a little pinch of my box, and listen to what is spoken in the air and in the water, in the forest and in the field."

b

49. From the beginning of the religious wars in Germany, down to the peace of Munster, there has, in the political worlds of Europe, scarcely any great and remarkable fact1 occurred ink which the Reformation' had not the principal share."

a

50. All the evil which Philip II. devised against Queen Elizabeth was revenged which he took", becausef she had sheltered his Protestant subjects against him, and had placed herself at the head of a religious sect which he was endeavouring" to destroy."

6

m

X. ON COMPOUNDED VERBS.

1. The tongue is a small member, but it does much mischief.d

a

47. heißen. to make a bargain einkaufen. to be rejoiced sich freuen. 48. auf. bein wenig schnupfen. clauschen.

а

49. a Anfang, m. b Religionskrieg, m.

d

с

e bis zu. a Friede, m. Münster. fpolitisch. & Welt, f. h kaum. iany fact express by etwas, and great groß, and remarkable merkwürdig, as Adjectives neuter. i to occur sich ereignen. k woran. Kirchenverbesserung. m take Subjunctive. "Hauptantheil.

с

d

50. ab Alles Böse. beschließen. Rache, f. esay, which he took for that dafür. daß. sin Schuß nehmen. h protestantisch. 'Unterthan, m. (G.-en). stellen. an. Spize, f. m Sekte, f. "streben. ° vertilgen.

1. Zunge, f. b Glied, n. ©anstiften, which is separable because an is not a prefix, so that the particle an stands at the end of the sentence. a Unheil, n.