goatskinful

Updated: May 12, 2025

The sound of a perpetual muffin-bell was ringing backwards and forwards the bhisti of Tangier, with his hairy goatskinful of water across his back, and two bright brass bowls hung by a chain round his neck, a bell in one hand, with the other dealing out drinks of water for a Moorish copper coin of which a penny contains fifteen.

Isabel Savory - In the Tail of the Peacock