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After which I repair to the bazaar, purchase meat with one dirhem, rakee with another, others go for fruit and flowers, cakes, sweetmeats, bread, oils for my lamps, and the remainder I spend in wine. As soon as all is collected, I arrive at my own house, put every thing in order, light up my lamps, and enjoy myself after my own fashion.
You know, my friend, that I never have put by a single para, and I fear that in three days my carcase will become shrivelled with famine, and dried up for the want of a cup of rakee." "Which thou hast often divided with me before now," replied the other; "so even now will I divide my work with you, Yussuf.
The dinner was served up in a tray, and placed on a low stool, while the company sat on the ground. One dish after another was served up till the traveller was tired of tasting them. But there was not only too much to eat; there was also too much to drink. Rakee, a kind of brandy, was handed about; and afterwards a musician came in and played and sang to amuse the company.
You know, my friend, that I never have put by a single para, and I fear that in three days my carcase will become shrivelled with famine, and dried up for the want of a cup of rakee." "Which thou hast often divided with me before now," replied the other; "so even now will I divide my work with you, Yussuf.
"Proceed, good Yussuf." "The third night they again came, and having no more money to spare, and finding them still making my house a tavern, I hoped that they would come no more; but they came again, a fourth night, and then behaved most indecorously, singing lewd songs, and calling out for wine and rakee until I could bear it no more, and I then told them that I could no longer receive them.
"Your highness it is the opinion of your slave, if such were to take place, that all the fools would have left the country." "Very true, Mustapha; but my mouth is parched up with the sand of that simoom sherbet I cannot drink, rakee I must not, the hakim has forbid it; what must it be then, Mustapha?"
Having left the bath, he dressed himself, went home, took his leathern pitcher, dish, and basket, and went to the bazaar, where he purchased a piece of mutton, and left it at the most noted kabob-makers in the district to be cooked; he then purchased his wine and rakee, wax tapers, and flowers, pistachio-nuts, dried fruit, bread, and oil for his lamps.
"Your highness it is the opinion of your slave, if such were to take place, that all the fools would have left the country." "Very true, Mustapha; but my mouth is parched up with the sand of that simoom Sherbet I cannot drink, Rakee I must not, the Hakim has forbid it; what must it be then, Mustapha?"
Another said, "Be comforted, Yussuf, three days will soon pass away, and then you will relish your kabobs, and your rakee, your sweetmeats and your wine, with greater pleasure, having been so long deprived of them." "Besides," added a third, "you must not forget, Yussuf, that the Prophet has declared that a man is eternally damned, body and soul, who is constantly drunk as you are."
"The third night they again came, and having no more money to spare, and finding them still making my house a tavern, I hoped that they would come no more; but they came again, a fourth night, and then behaved most indecorously, singing lewd songs, and calling out for wine and rakee until I could bear it no more, and I then told them that I could no longer receive them.
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