He paused with a look of utter amazement. He stood motionless and held complete silence and two pails of milk.
But I advanced onwards and relieved him of his embarrassment and one pail of milk, and introduced Al Faizi. Al Faizi riz up to once and made a deep bow, almost to the floor; but my poor Josiah, with a look of bewilderment pitiful to witness, and after standin’ for a brief time and not speakin’ a word, sez he—
Al Faizi made a deep bow, almost to the floor.
“I guess, Samantha, I will go out to the sink and wash my hands.”
Truly, it wuz enough to surprise any man, to leave a pardner with no companion but a sheep’s-head nightcap, partly finished, and come back in a few minutes and see her a-keepin’ company with a heathen, clothed in a long robe and turban.
Wall, Josiah asked me out into the kitchen for a explanation, which I gin to him with a few words and a clean towel, and then sez I—“We must ask him to stay all night.”
And he sez, “I d’no what we want of that strange-lookin’ creeter a-hangin’ round here.”
And I sez, “I believe he is sent by Heaven to instruct us heathens.”
And Josiah said that if he wuz sent from Heaven he would most probble have wings.