his, it seemed as if something was moving at the bottom of
the goblet, and on looking in he discovered a black leech writhing.
Disgusted, he threw from him the goblet, the contents of which caused
vomiting, and he fell fainting on the ground.

He was roused by a violent shaking. Opening his eyes, he saw a little
deformed figure standing before him with a hump on his chest and back,
with squinting eyes, and with a nose that hung over his mouth like a
bunch of purple grapes. His clothes were black, and he wore a miner's
apron, having on his head a black cap, upon which appeared a death's
head and cross bones. In his hand he held a miner's hammer. "What are
you doing here?" asked the monster, "Who gave you permission to enter
my cavern, to cast my goblet in the sand, and to sleep on my ground?"

"Pardon me, sir," replied Hussain; "I am a poor unhappy wretch, and
know not how I am come hither. I was once Cadi of Bagdad, thus much I
recollect; I had a beautiful daughter, who was to be married to the son
of my enemy, but I would not give my consent. What took place further
is concealed from my memory as if by a mist."

"You have come here without my permission," said the little miner; "you
have cast my goblet into the dust; you would not allow your daughter to
marry; all this deserves punishment."

He now took poor Hussain by the hand, and led him into a cavern, where
the icy cold water incessantly poured into the abyss below, like a
shower bath, through innumerable holes. Hussain was obliged to stand
on a narrow piece of rock, where, in spite of a shivering fit of ague,
he dared not move lest he should fall into the well beneath. When he
had thus stood for a long time, the miner led him out and threw him on
the sand, under the burning sun, where he could not move. "This will
teach you not to throw my cup on the ground again, not to sleep again
in my cavern without my permission, and not to forbid again the
marriage of your daughter," said the dwarf. He then filled the goblet
with water, took a piece of black bread from a recess in the rock, and
put both before Hussain, saying, "Eat, drink, and be my slave, but do
not venture twenty paces from the cavern; rest yourself that you may be
strong for work on my return."

When he was gone, Hussain took the bread which hunger made him relish,
notwithstanding it was very bad. As he took the goblet and again saw
the leech in it, he was near despair, put it down again, b