“By all that’s sacred—by my beard she is thine!”
Yoo-ti-hu ceased—the dancers, groaning and breathless, returned to their seats—the grand nazir was taken from the post in a pitiable plight—and the pious Musselman ejaculated—“God is great!”
An Arabian historian says that Yoo-ti-hu having espoused Omanea, carried his bride to the kingdom of Bucharia, of which, in the course of time, he became the king; and with his inexhaustible purse built a palace of gold, wherein he reigned for half a century, the mirror of monarchy, and the admiration of mankind.
Louisville, Kentucky, December 14, 1840.
LEAVES FROM A LAWYER’S PORT-FOLIO.
THE AVENGER.
“Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
And I will stand the hazard of the die.”