SHE CONTINUED: I have heard, O fortunate king, that the Jew said to Khalifa: ‘If this is what you want, I can do it easily,’ and he got to his feet immediately and used the form of words that Khalifa had proposed. Then, turning to him, he asked: ‘Is there anything else that you need from me?’ at which Khalifa said no. ‘Then goodbye,’ said the Jew, after which Khalifa got up straight away and, taking his basket and his net, he went to the Tigris. He made a cast and when he started to draw the net in he found it so heavy that he only managed to pull it in with difficulty, and when he got it out he discovered that it was filled with fish of all kinds. A woman came up to him with a dish and gave him a dinar, in return for which he gave her some of the fish, and she was followed by a eunuch, who also bought a dinar’s worth. The stream of customers continued until he had sold his catch for ten dinars. Each day for the next ten days he sold ten dinars’ worth of fish, until he had amassed a hundred gold dinars. Khalifa had a lodging within the merchants’ passage, and one night as he lay there to sleep he said to himself: ‘Khalifa, everyone knows that you are a poor fisherman and yet you have a hundred gold dinars.