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a good deal amused with the conduct of our friend 

 the surrigee, who was either a very strict Mus- 

 sulman, or wished to appear so in our presence. 

 It happened that he had brought with him a large 

 loaf of bread, which had, unfortunately for him, been 

 slung on one side of the horse's saddle close to 

 a calabash of ours, which contained some common 

 Albanian wine. The jolting of the horse had 

 damaged the calabash, and caused a fracture of 

 just sufficient size to allow a little wine to escape 

 and convert the whole of one side of the Turk's 

 loaf of bread into an inferior kind of ^^ tipsy cake." 



Now, although tipsy cake is a most delicious com- 

 pound, particularly when the materials are good, 

 perhaps in this case it might have been a good 

 deal better, without even then becoming first-rate ; 

 however, whether* good or bad, our friend the Turk 

 seemed to condemn it upon principle, like the man 

 who was so determined not to die of eating three 

 shillings' worth of crumpets (as his medical man as- 

 sured him he would if he did eat them), that he ate 

 them first and blew his brains out afterwards with 

 a pistol. Wine had touched the bread, and by 

 the laws of Mahomet he could not eat it. 



Well, he was right if he really thought so ; and 



