412  Jowrna! of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [ November, 1906. 
“Father, there is a gazelle in the garden.” ! His father said, 
“We have sent after it the five expert shots,” and passed his hand 
over his beard. Now there was seated near another man with 
seated spea me as that boy did, so that people may say, 
“What an intelligent boy is So and So’s son!’” Said the boy, 
Ae wi ” 
and reached San‘a s * where was a Basha,* who had in his service 
three men to make him laugh: these used to tell him funny stories. 
The Hazrami went to the Basha. When the latter saw him, 
he said, “ Whence comest thou, young man?” He said, “ By God,° 
“ama: sore ee And what will be a poser ?” said 
he last foot of which shall not be a word.” Said they, “ Recite 
the lines; let us hear them.” He did so. Thereupon they 
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‘1 Bustan, “Garden,” in Arabic gi | 
, : rab i i 
and os also sie Arab simile fora ha er a 
; ve. an inhabitant of Hazramaut. 
. The capital of Yaman. — 
; Bp Gore at el the Turkish Pasha. 
: & the speaker merely replied, “ F : os 
8 ‘ ‘ egg piled, rom Hazramau . 
peech would be curt. ‘ By God” is simply used to avoid brusqueness. 
