A. Lang

The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night.

Walking home in the dark from an evening spent in mischief, a young man spied coming toward him down the road a person with a lamp. When the wayfarers drew abreast, the play-boy saw that the Other traveler was the Blind Man from his village. ""Blind Man,"" the youngster shouted across the road, ""what a fool you be! Why, old No-Eyes, do you bear...