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1 Lung is the loin cloth used in SRe hamynam. Barbers use one to protect the shoulders of their customers. 



2 Guft, "thought, said to himself." 3 An gusha, 'in a corner away from him.' 



4 Salm&m, "barber"; perhaps derived from Salman, the friend of 'Ali and a Zardushti barber, and afterwards a Governor in 

 Persia. 



6 i.e., he could not lengthen the cut hairs by pulling them with tweezers. 



8 For shaving, water alone (in summer cold water) and not lather is used. Shaving soap, it is said, has only lately been intro- 

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1 Sakii, " a wooden bench, a mud platform ; " also the brick recess and seat at gates. 



'* Mi-ram, vulg. for mi-ravam. 9 Mard= husband. I0 Sdhib-khdna, no izafat. J-Vcte also note 5, p. 392. 



It Pv.n-*ad, vulg. for panj-xad. 12 t?a/-z' wi£// ( " on (the neck of) a nail." 13 For chiinki. 



1+ i.£., involuntarily fell a-laughing. 15 Dast zadan, " to clap the hands " ; also "to touch, meddle with." 



)4 Vdrid-i khdna shud, ' entered the house.' H Alazd, for persons, and nazdih, for things. 



1? iJo - is a small door and darvdza is a large gate. 



