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“On his way thither, he passed his shop, where he found the donkey-boy breaking the vats and jars and saw that there was neither stuff nor liquor left in them and that the dyery was in ruins.”
“So he said to him, “Hold thy hand, O ass-driver;” and the donkey-boy desisted and cried,”
“She resumed, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the dyer caught hold of the donkey-boy and the donkey-boy caught hold of the dyer and they beat and cursed each other till the folk collected round them and one of them asked, “What is the matter, O Master Mohammed?””
“And lo! at this moment up came the dyer and the Jew and the young merchant, and seeing the Moorish barber holding on to the ass-driver who was fired on both temples, they said to him, “What hath befallen thee, O donkey-boy?””
“I reck not of them, save the donkey-boy, who knoweth me.”
“The barber, seeing his place plundered, caught hold of the donkey-boy and said to him,”
“To each donkey there was a donkey-boy, and to each gentleman there was a dragoman, so that a goodly cortege was assembled, and a goodly noise was made.”
“The stranger wonders to hear a Cairene donkey-boy shouting sentences in three or four European dialects, with a pronunciation as pure as his own.”
“The surly donkey-boy was worked up into a paroxysm of passion by such small jokes as telling him to convey our salams to the Governor of Jeddah, and by calling the asses after the name of his tribe.”
“The best precaution against disappointment would be the registering Abbans at Aden; every donkey-boy will offer himself as a protector, but only the chiefs of tribes should be provided with certificates.”
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Rillons of Random Palavery
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hernesheir "Oh, Jack dear," she whispered, fairly maddened at last, "I wish he had hired a donkey-boy for me, to run behind and whack." -- Miss Daisy Dimity by May Crommelin, London, 1883, p. 121. Jul 18, 2010