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theirs will be granted, viz :—“ Now ! that we, with our children and: 
relations, have in our old age been exalted by reaching that Court 
which is the rest of Angels, that Court whose threshold is the 
roof of our Good-Fortune and the palace of our Exaltation, we 
hope that until we have exhibited our arts and displayed our de- 
light to the King, you’ will not scatter our united assembly, nor 
turn us who are now —— like Pleiades into a far-flung con- 
stellation like the Great B 
“ Further, the families of the pigeons; one and all, humbly 
rettiiias that, should any one be ee on the Mecca Pilgrimage, 
you will send through him our greeting to those pigeons 0 of the 
Sacred Sanctuary, who circle round the holy Ka‘ba.” 
Moreover, as that Support of the Khilafat* is expecting a little 
guest, he must make tte) arrangements for his arrival; for in 
this case, Please God, some good es pb be eee to the guest ; 
that is, his share will ‘ba some of Our young p that have just 
made their appearance in the wor Id; but shania & ‘lee little oh al 
tarry in his coming We will-give that Prop of me Benen tt 
pigeons than he is expecting to receive.® 

1 Ma dam in colloquial Arabic, means “ sca that,’ ‘end this seems to be 
the Te here, and not the Persian an t Arabic “ as long as 
n the original, third person plura 
3 Mi i-rafta basha fa — been starting ” ; Wrong tense. 
% a * the addr 
is, “ We will k keep back the little pial 8 share.” This is 
merely peas jocosity: there is no special meaning. 
eee kk sees ae 
