A Funny Old Turk 



done and seen nothing worth mentioning here in the last 

 three or four days, because of the foul weather. We have 

 sat at our window sketching the strange figures of Jews and 

 Pagans standing on the line-wall, apparently anxious for the 

 arrival of expected crafts, perhaps sunk in the tempest. 

 They are usually very restless and difficult to draw. There 

 is one funny old Turk in particular, who amuses us the 

 most — a crooked old figure in a large white turban and blue 

 boornoos^^ who goes flapping about in his wet yellow slippers, 

 peeping anxiously through a large pair of spectacles under 



a hu2:e green umbrella. 



' Hooded cloak. 



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