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The laughable stories collected by Mâr Gregory John Bar Hebræ

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I04<br />

THE LAUGHABLE STORIES OF BAR-HEBR^US.<br />

CCCCXII. A certain man's wife saw in a dream a<br />

dead woman, and she asked her, saying, "My daughter,<br />

"what deed is most beloved <strong>by</strong> God?" And she replied,<br />

"He that distributeth nuts to the poor." Now<br />

when she repeated this to the interpreter he said to<br />

her, "Thou hast hidden treasure laid up under the<br />

"ground, go and distribute it among the poor and<br />

"needy; for nuts are symbolic of treasure, both <strong>by</strong><br />

"the similarity of their name' and also <strong>by</strong> the simi-<br />

"larity of action, for when a man draweth nigh to a<br />

"nut it is noised abroad and cannot be hidden; even<br />

"so also is it with treasure."<br />

' Gawzd="nut" , and gazzd "treasure".

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