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Updated: May 1, 2025
Take your damned tirlils to your damned funduk, and be off! clear out! comprenni?" And he looked so very angry that the Arab, a prudent fellow, walked backwards out of the room, more surprised and grieved than ever. Thanks to the disinterested and strenuous exertions of a Jewish international lawyer, the affair was settled out of court after all fifteen hundred francs, plus expenses of transport.
He used to go out in the evenings and shoot bats; then he put them into bottles with spirits of wine he was an amateur of bats. On the day of his departure from the place, he said to the polyglot Arab guide whom he had picked up somewhere on his wanderings: "You will rejoin me in Tunis in ten days. Bring me more bats tirlils: comprenni? from this country. I will give you fifty centimes apiece."
And the quarries whence the Romans drew them have also been found, by Guerin; they lie in the flanks of the Jebel Assalah, and are well worth a visit; legions of bats tirlils, the Arabs call them hang in noisome clusters from the roof. Concerning these bats, the following story is told in Gafsa. Not long ago a rich Englishman came here.
He thought he was giving a pleasure to Monsieur, who had asked for bats. He had been obliged to borrow money from his aged mother to help to pay the nine hundred francs which he had already disbursed for assistance in catching the tirlils; he had risked his life; there were the transport expenses, too: very heavy.
"Bats; tirlils, chauve-souris, pipistrelli... They will need much bottles. Six hundred tirlils in each sack; ten sacks; six thousand tirlils. Much bottles! Three thousand francs, Monsieur. Shall I open him?" The tourist cast a dismayed glance over the sacks, gently heaving with life. "Look here," he said, "I'll give you fifty francs...." The Arab was surprised and grieved.
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