202 LITTLE HUNCH-BACK,

observing the body not to move, he stood to consider a little,
and then, perceiving it was a corpse, fear succeeded his anger.
“Wretched man that I am!” said he, “what have I done? I
have killeda man! Alas! I have carried my revenge too far.”
He stood pale and thunderstruck: he thought he saw the
officers already come to drag him to condign punishment, and
could not tell what resolution to take.

 

 

‘The sultan of Cashgar’s purveyor had never noticed the little
man’s hump-back when he-was beating him; but as soon as he
perceived it, he threw out a thousand exclamations against
him, wishing he had been robbed of all his tallow, rather than
committed this murder. He took the crooked corpse upon his
shoulders, and carried him out of doors to the end of the
street, where he set him upright, resting against a shop, and so
tradged home again, without looking behind him. A few
minutes before break of day, a Christian merchant, who was
very rich, and furnished the sultan’s palace with various