XC.

So while the Vessels one by one were speaking, The little Moon look'd in that all were seeking: And then they jogg'd each other, «Brother! Brother! Now for the Porter's shoulder-knot a-creaking!»

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This quatrain which concludes the Kuza Nama is inspired by the concluding quatrain of O. 158.

The month of Ramazan passes and Shawwal comes, The season of increase, and joy, and storytellers comes; Now comes that time when «Bottles upon the shoulder!» They say--for the porters come and are back to back.[86]

_Ref._: O. 158.--W. 218.