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"Why didn't you put her in a sack?" inquired the pacha, when Mustapha explained. "Put her head in a bag no, she wasn't so ugly as all that," replied the sailor. "Howsomever, to coil away." I joined a privateer brig, and after three cruises I had plenty of money, and determined to have another spell on shore, that I might get rid of it.
"That is just where the difficulty lies, you foolish boy," said the merchant, stroking his brown hair gently. "Those who rob and plunder make it much easier for themselves in the world, and I have known many a one to begin his career as a robber who, subsequently, ruled over men as a grand pacha. Yet I am confident that it is not in this manner you wish to acquire riches, but as an honest man."
My father was a gardener, and people of his condition, you know, are obliged to get up early, that they may be in time for the market, where, you know, they bring their vegetables for sale." "This is all very true, I dare say," observed the pacha; "but you will oblige me by leaving out all those you knows, which I agree with your comrade Hussan to be very tedious."
He was often in the thickest of the fire; and when, in the absence of many of his men, who had boarded the Turkish flag-ship, his own was also boarded, he repulsed the assailants in person, and, fighting with all the vigor of youth, received a wound in the foot on the deck of the galley of Pertau Pacha, whither he had pursued his advantage.
When Mustapha translated all this to the pacha, the latter was lost in astonishment. "Allah wakbar! God is every where! Did you ever hear of such a swimmer? Twenty thousand miles five months and three days. It is a wonderful story! Let his mouth be filled with gold."
"But that was a long while ago, and we have done with the dreams of our youth long since, have we not, Mohammed? What then was, has passed away. He no longer thinks of the childlike defiance you displayed toward him, the great pacha; and the sorrow and suffering he caused you are long since forgotten." "Yes," replied Mohammed, in low tones, "yes, it is forgotten. All sorrow and suffering are over.
They brought us into this port; where, with the rest, I was sold as a slave. "Such is my history," ended the Spaniard, "which I trust has afforded some amusement to your sublime highness." The immediate answer of the pacha was a loud yawn. "Shukur Allah! Praise be to God you have done talking.
When the divan of the ensuing day had closed, the old woman was ordered to be brought into the presence of the pacha; and as she refused to walk, she was brought on the shoulders of four of the guards, and laid on the floor of the council-chamber. "How dare you rebel against the sublime commands?" inquired Mustapha with severity. "How dare I rebel!" cried the old woman with a shrill voice.
The pelisse, carefully impregnated with smallpox germs taken from a young girl suffering from this malady, had conveyed the dreaded disease to the new pacha, who, not having been inoculated, died in a few days.
I will be more careful as I proceed." Cerise was melancholy at the idea of my departure. I kissed the tears away, and the time flew rapidly. I persuaded her to allow me an interview after the family had retired, as I had much to say to her. "Well, well, we'll suppose all that," observed the pacha, impatiently: "now go on; you remember you were to set off in the morning."
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