HOW IT OUT BOTH WAYS.
When a certain English nobleman was ambassador at Constantinople, one of the secretaries had an audience with the Sheik of Islam, who at the moment of his visitor's entrance was engaged in the performance^ his devotions. The secretary sat down while the devotee finished his prayers, which were ended by an invocation to Allah to forgive a suppliant true believer the sin of holding direct intercourse with a Gaiour. His conscience thus relieved, the old mufti rose from his knees, and smilingly welcomed his guest. But his guest, who wab a bit of a wag, in his turn, begged permission to perform his devotions. He gravely went through an Arabic formula, and ended by begging Allah to forgive a good Christian the crime of visiting a faithless dog of an infidel. The astonished old mufti was evidently nettled, but, with true Oriental imperturbability, he bore the insult without a word.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1499, 7 August 1880, Page 27
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155HOW IT OUT BOTH WAYS. Otago Witness, Issue 1499, 7 August 1880, Page 27
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