سندبادنامه 373.44

373.44

From this delicacy of temperament he was fastidious, faultfinding, and ill-tempered, so that he felt disgust at the water
of Kawīr and disliked the bliss of Paradise. In whatever city he entered,
first of all he would make the rounds of the row of cooks and victuallers. One day, mounted upon the steed of
appetite 'like the thirsty madman or the hungry famished one', he was riding and in the market
he wandered about, casting his eye on every dwelling and thoroughfare, selecting the choicest foods.
In the midst of his inspection he saw a slave-girl at the edge of a shop in clean clothes, upon a dainty
tray and a clean napkin, who had baked cakes of fine flour, butter, and honey, and
had placed them along the passage of the market for any purchaser, waiting with expectant eyes, of the utmost