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"Aferin! well said," replied the pacha; "I don't care how long a story it is, provided that it is a good one:" and Selim having obeyed a sign from his highness, intimating that he might sit down, commenced as follows: "Wallah thaib; well said by Allah!" observed Mustapha. The pacha nodded his approbation; and the renegade proceeded with his story.
"Aferin, excellent:" exclaimed the pacha; "and when will he be here?" "Before the tube now honoured by kissing the lips of your highness shall have poured out in ecstasy the incense of another bowl of the fragrant weed, the slippers of the Kessehgou will be left at the threshold of the palace. Be chesm, on my eyes be it." "'Tis well, Mustapha.
I filled up the spring, all but a hole which I sat on the top of. When the rats came again, I filled my mouth with water, and held it wide open; they ran up to drink, and I caught their heads in my teeth, and thus I took as many as I wished. "Aferin, excellent!" cried the pacha, as soon as this was explained.
"Aferin, excellent:" exclaimed the pacha; "and when will he be here?" "Before the tube now honoured by kissing the lips of your highness shall have poured out in ecstasy the incense of another bowl of the fragrant weed, the slippers of the kessehgou will be left at the threshold of the palace. Be chesm, on my eyes be it." "'Tis well, Mustapha.
"Aferin! well said," replied the pacha; "I don't care how long a story it is, provided that it is a good one:" and Selim, having obeyed a sign from his highness, intimating that he might sit down, commenced as follows. "Wallah Thaib; well said, by Allah!" observed Mustapha. The pacha nodded his approbation, and the renegade proceeded with his story.
I filled up the spring, all but a hole which I sat on the top of. When the rats came again, I filled my mouth with water, and held it wide open; they ran up to drink, and I caught their heads in my teeth, and thus I took as many as I wished. "Aferin, excellent!" cried the pacha, as soon as this was explained.
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