Having finished this complaint, he fretfully threw the basket, and, washing his nets from the slime, cast them a third time, but brought up except stones, shells, and mud. No language can express his ; he was almost distracted. However, when day began to , he did not forget to say his like a good Mussulman, and he added to them this : "Lord, thou knowest that I cast my nets only four times a day; I have already drawn them three times, without the least reward for my : I am only to cast them once more; I pray thee to to me, as thou didst to Moses."

The , having , cast his nets the time; and when he thought it was proper, drew them as formerly with great difficulty; but instead of fish found nothing in them but a vessel of yellow copper, which, from its weight, seemed not to be empty; and he observed that it was fastened and closed with lead, having the of a seal upon it. rejoiced him: "I will sell it," said he, "to the founder, and with the buy a measure of corn." He examined the vessel on all sides, and shook it to see if its contents made any noise, but heard nothing. This circumstance, with the impression of the seal upon the cover, made him think it enclosed something precious. To try this, he took a knife and opened it with very little labour. He turned the mouth downward, , which him extremely. He placed it before him, but while he viewed it , there burst forth a very thick smoke, which obliged him to retire two or three paces back.

The smoke ascended to the clouds, and, extending itself along the sea and upon the , formed a great mist, which . When the smoke was all out of the vessel, it , and became a solid body, of which was formed a twice as high as the greatest of giants. At the sight of such a the fisherman would fain have fled, but was so that he could not move.


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