﻿ANECDOTE OF AN EGYPTIAN GOVERNOR. 



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whose name was Haraos ; he told him that the manufacturer of sjlk 

 had put him to sleep in a room, in the wall of which were nails, and 

 that, being without a candle, he had knocked out his eye. The 



governor ordered the manufacturer to be brought before him, and said, 

 * When a man sticks nails in the walls of his house, he must take 

 care and give a light to those who come and ask hospitality of him. 

 You have not done so, and justice requires that my cawass thrust 

 out your eye, as one of your nails has thrust out the eye of this 

 man. That's all.' 



" ' But I do not know this man ; I have never seen him.' 

 " ' Silence !' exclaimed the governor. ' Guards, seize this manu- 

 facturer, and thrust a nail into his eye.' 



" ' A moment ! a moment ! ' cried the inhabitant of Menouf. 'My 

 neighbor is a man who passes his life in shooting birds upon the 

 river Nile ; one eye is enough for him ; shall I bring him before 

 you ?' 



