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alive. How can his son Jesus give any part of his kingdomaway?"

360( 26a). A father asked his son to try and get a truefriend. The son replied that he had one hundred and thefather said that he himself had only one, or perhaps halfof a friend and he would put his son's friends to the test.He killed a sheep, put it in a sack with the blood running,and asked the son to carry it on his shoulder. He knockedat the door of one of the son's friends, told him the sonhad inadvertently killed an enemy and begged of him toshelter him. The friend bluntly refused and so did all thehundred. The father took him to his own friend, who atonce received them and said, they would dig a grave in hisgarden in the night and so cover up all traces. The son thenrecognised the truth of his father's admonition.

361( 26b). There were two friends one in Babel and onein Kaira. When one was on point of death, the malady wasdiscovered by the other to be due to being lovesick. Thefriend renounced him a beautiful slave girl he had boughtas a wife for himself and the friend recovered.

362( 26c). A man was falsely accused of murder and wastortured and confessed his guilt. His friend, who knew himto be innocent, offered himself to be killed in his stead. Thereal murderer, seeing that devotion, came forward and waspunished.

363( 31). The leaders of the congregation used to carrythe Scroll of the Law whenever they went to meet theking. After a time they only carried the empty ornamentedcase and an apostate denounced them. A heavenly voicewarned the beadle and ordered him to put the Scroll in thecase. The king paid them a visit, was met as usual, thecase was opened and the scroll was discovered inside.

364( 33). In the time of King Suleiman the vizier threa-tened his wife if, after bearing nine daughters, the tenthchild would also be a girl. When the child was born it wasa daughter. She told it to the midwife who, however, sub-stituted a male child of a washerwoman born on the same