[FN#141] Or irrigation-work, usually a bucket-wheel, worked by oxen.
[FN#142] Or "came true."
[FN#143] i.e. crucify.
[FN#144] i.e. a native of the Hauran, a district East of
Damascus.
[FN#145] i.e. the mysterious speaker.
[FN#146] i.e. in the punishment that overtook me.
[FN#147] The well-known Arab formula of refusal to a beggar, equivalent to the Spanish "Perdoneme por amor de Dios, hermano!"
[FN#148] i.e. what I could afford.
[FN#149] i.e. that of the officers of police.
[FN#150] A common Oriental game, something like a rude out-door form of back-gammon, in which the players who throw certain numbers are dubbed Sultan and Vizier.