the Crooked Muſſelman, whoſe Death you are now about to avenge. So my Wife and I took the Corps, and after conveying it up to the Leads of our Houſe, ſhov’d it to the Roof of the Purveyor, our next Neighbour, his Houſe, and let it down the Chimney into his Chamber, The Purveyor, finding it in his Houſe, took the little Man for a Thief, and after beating him, concluded he had killed him; but that it was not ſo, you’ll be convinced by this my Depoſition; ſo that I am the only Author of the Murder, and, tho’ it was committed undeſignedly, I have refolved to expiate my Crime, by keeping clear of the Charge of the Death of two Muſlelmen, and hindring you to execute the Sultans Purveyor, whoſe Innocence I have now revealed. So pray diſmiſs him, and put me in his Place, for I alone am the Cauſe of the Death of the little Man.
The Sultaneſs deſcrying Day, diſcontinued her Story till the next Night, that ſhe proceeded in the following manner.
The Hundred and twenty Seventh Night.
SIR, ſaid ſhe, the chief Juſtice being perſuaded that the Jewiſh Doctor was the Murderer, gave Orders to the Executioner to ſeize him, and releaſe the Purveyor. Accordingly the Doctor was juſt a going to be hung up, when the Taylor-appeared, crying to the Executioner to hold his Hand, and make room for him, that he might come and make his Confeſſionto the Lord Juſtice. Room being made, “My. Lord (ſaid he to the Judge) you have narrowly eſcaped taking away the Lives of the three innocent Perſons; but if you’ll have the Patience to hear me, I’ll diſcover to you the real Murderer of the Crook-back’d Man. If his Death is to be expiated by another, that muſt be mine. Yeſterday, towards the Evening, as I was at Work in my Shop, and had a mind to be merry, the little- Hunch-back came to my Door half drunk, and ſat down before it. He ſung a little, and fo invited him to paſs the Evening at my Houſe, Accordingly he accepted of the Invitation, and went in with me. We ſat down to Supper, and I gave him a Plate of Fiſh; but in eating a Bone ſtuck in his Throat, and tho’ my Wife and I did our utmoſt to relieve him, he died in