This is his favourite wife, and her story is worth a passing note.

She was not a "funded houri," but a poor _yatow_, a "forked head" or slave girl, whom he purchased on a lucky day, and, smitten with her charms, made her his wife.

It was a case of love at first sight.

Her conduct since marriage has more than justified the choice of her master.

Still a young woman, she has already presented her lord with nine children, on the last occasion surpassing herself by giving birth to twins.