'It cost nothing to hear it,' quoth ACHMET: 'there was no charge made.'
'Aio! true,' answered YUSEF; 'but there were too many drums; I wouldn't have one if I were Pacha.'
'Welcome even pitch, if it is gratis.'
'Wanting to make the eyebrows right, pull out the eyes,' said ACHMET, contentedly. 'And as for your disliking the music,—A cucumber being given to a poor man, he did not accept it because it was crooked!'—'Come, let us shut up shop and go to the mosque. It is fated that we sell no goods to-day. Wajadna bira'hmat allah ra'hah—By the grace of Allah we have found repose!'
Our correspondent gives us a pun in our last number over again. It is none the worse, however, for its new coat, as set forth in
GETTING AHEAD OF TIME.
'Well now, I declare, this is too bad. Here it is five minutes past ten and BUDDEN ain't here. Did anybody ever know that man to keep an engagement?'
'Yes,' replied the Doctor to the Squire, 'I knew him to keep one.'
'Let it out,' said the Squire.
'An engagement to get married.'