Persian Tales - Volume II - Bakhtiari Tales - Illustrated by Hilda Roberts. D. L. Lorimer

of stolen money and began dividing it among them. All of a sudden Nāsir sprang up and said: “Dead men seize the living!” and the thieves fled in terror while the brothers pursued them some little distance. Then the two returned to divide the money between them. One of the original thieves came back too, hoping to get a share, but Khōnkār lifted his hand and knocked off his hat and said: “That’s your two-farthing share!”

      Thereupon the thieves made off, while the brothers took up the money on their shoulders and went off and enjoyed it together, and rested themselves.

      The story is ended.

¹ What follows is not very clear. Some part of the story has probably been forgotten and left out.

¹ Muhammadans always wash dead bodies, in running water if possible, and then wrap them up in a shroud and bury them without any coffin.