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'You have brought a lamb stuffed with pistachio-nuts, instead of a gazelle with almonds, said the Guebre. 'Not half sugar-plums enough, said the Negro. 'Everything is wrong, said Kisloch. 'Go, and get us a kabob.
'I got this little trifle to-day in the Bazaar, he added, holding up a magnificent vase studded with gems. 'I thought plunder was forbidden, grinned the Negro. 'So it is, replied the Guebre; 'but we may purchase what we please, upon credit. 'Well, for my part, I am a moderate man, exclaimed Calidas the Indian, 'and would not injure even these accursed dogs of Turks.
Calidas the Indian, the Guebre, and the Negro, and a few congenial spirits, were not eclipsed in the satisfactory character of their evidence by the luminous testimony of Kisloch the Kourd.
It is doubtless owing to this invaluable trait of their character, that the guebres have naturally drifted to their level of guardians over the private property of their wealthy neighbors. The costume of the guebre female consists of Turkish trousers with very loose, baggy legs, the material of which is usually calico print, and a mantle of similar material is wrapped about the head and body.
'I am a Hadgee, said our old friend Abdallah, the servant of the charitable merchant Ali, and who was this day one of the officiating stewards. 'Are you a Jew, you scoundrel? said the Guebre, 'that is the only thing worth being. Bring some wine, you accursed Giaour! 'Instantly, said Kisloch, 'and a pilau. 'And a gazelle stuffed with almonds, said Calidas.
'Let me die for the Ark! said a young enthusiast of the band of Abner. 'I thought we should get into a scrape, whispered Kisloch the Kourd to Calidas the Indian. 'What could have ever induced us to give up robbing in a quiet manner? 'And turn Jews! said the Guebre, with a sneer. 'Look at Scherirah, said the Negro, grinning. 'If he is not kissing the sceptre of Solomon!
For this purpose I am told guebre families are in such demand, that if they were sufficiently numerous to go around, there would be scarcely a piece of valuable garden property in all Persia without a family of guebres in charge of it.
He has sadly degenerated from the type of his Guebre ancestor. If he owns a shop he combines the sale of other commodities with the tea business. He has an ice-cream, a sherbet and a "cold-drink" department; and he touts for customers, singing the praises of hot and cold beverages in a language redolent of Persian.
A Tamsil, or application in point. They asked a Siyah-gosh, or lion-provider, "Why do you choose the service of the lion?" He answered: "Because I subsist on the leavings of his prey, and am secure from the ill-will of my enemies under the asylum of his valor." They said: "Now you have got within the shadow of his protection and admit a grateful sense of his bounty, why do you not approach more closely, that he may include you within the circle of select courtiers and number you among his chosen servants?" He replied, "I should not thus be safe from his violence." Though a Guebre may keep his fire alight for a hundred years, if he fall once within its flame it will burn him. Procul
He would have risen; his feet were bound. He looked round for Schirene, and called her name; he was answered only by a shriek. The amphitheatre was filled with Karasmian troops. His own men were surprised and overpowered. Kisloch and the Guebre had been on guard. He was raised from the ground, and flung upon a camel, which was instantly trotted out of the circus.
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