goatskin-merchant

Updated: June 27, 2025

Brown posted a sentry at the hut-door, and another at the crossroads which he was to guard, then went round behind the but to bargain with the goatskin-merchant. But he stopped before he reached the tree. "Boy!" he called, and a low-caste native servant came toward him at a run. "Is that fakir there still?" "Ha, sahib!" "Ha? Can't you learn to say 'yes, like a human being?" "Yes, sahib!"

Talbot Mundy - Told in the East