The Laughable Stories Collected by Mar Gregory John

STORIES OF MISERS. I 2 I
until after he had commanded that she should sit on
a chariot, and that her former husband should draw
her along in it; and the king commanded that it should
be thus. And as they were travelling along the road,
she took out a dinar and threw it on the ground,
and said to him that had formerly been her husband
and was now drawing her chariot, "Hand me up the
''zuza which I have dropped;" and when he looked
on the ground he found the dinar. And he said to
her, "This is not a zusa, but a dinarr She said to
him, "Blessed be the Lord who hath prepared a dinar
"for me to find, seeing that I have lost a zuzd!' By
the 2U2d she referred to the man whom she had lost,
and by the dinar to the king whom she had found.