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ALL now was confufion. I cried, “ Hagi Ifmacel, for God’s 
fake forbear.” Lvery body fpoke, no body heard. The 
Moullah hat croffed the room and fat down befide the Aga, 
who faid to him very fternly, “ What Yagoube may do, | 
and what he may not do,in Syene, has never been confided 
to you, though it has been to me, and | have not thought it 
necceflary to.take your advice upon it. This man is the fer- 
vant of aking. Were you to infult him in Conftantinople,. 
his complaint would cofta much greater man than you his 
life, even this day before fun-fet. Who taught you to call 
him Kafr whom you had never before feen, and then a- 
bufe the janizary, who, befides, is a fherriffe, and an aged 
man, whofe hand better men than you kifs when they meet 
him in the freet? Go home and learn wifdom, fince you 
cannot teach it; at leaft, don’t make the grand fignior’s 
cafe the {cene of your abufe and folly.” The Moullah up- 
on this rebuke departed, very much humbled. 
As Michael had brought the drawings, I turned to the 
trees and flowers. The Aga was greatly pleafed with them, ’ 
and laughed, putting them up to his nofe as if {melling 
them. They did not offend him, as they were not the 
likenefs of any thing that had life. I then fhewed him a 
fith, and reached the book to an old man with a long beard, 
but who had a very chearful countenance. He looked at it 
with great furprife. ‘Ihe Aga had feveral times called him 
his father. “ Do not be angry, fays he to me, if | afk youa — 
quettion. Iam not fuch a manas the Moullah that is gone.” 
“ { will anfwer all your queflions with pleafure, faid I, and, 
in your turn, you mutt not take the anfwer ill.” “ No, no, 
faid two or three of them, HagiSoliman knows better.” So- 
Jiman. “ Do you not believe, fe he, that that fith will Rite 
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