"I was once in debt to the full amount of three hundred thousand gold pieces; and, being distressed by that, I sold all that was behind me and what was before me and all I seized in hand, but I could collect no more than an hundred thousand dinars"—

When it was the Three Hundred and Forty fourth night

Then rose the Chief of the Police of Old Cairo and said, "O our lord the Sultan, the most marvellous thing that happened to me, since I became Wali was in this way and he began