Of course, the reader understands that the two were no other than
Kaloolah and myself ; and it is unnecessary, therefore, to stop longer than
to explain that it was the enmity of Hassan, and the jealousy of Mrs. Ali,
that had caused our precipitate flight. Upon the division of the spoil,
on the morning after our attack upon the caravan, Kaloolah had been as-
signed by lot, to an old Arab, who, satiated with the pleasures, yet hardly
inured to the pains, of a well-stocked harem — and, withal, having certain
notions of female loveliness, to which Kaloolah's classic features and
slender figure did not conform — was exceedingly chagrined at the turn
of fortune, which threatened to throw into the wrangling elements of
his domestic felicity a feminine superfluity — or, as he expressed it,
"another tongue in his tent."

" Bishmallah ! " he exclaimed ; " God is great ! — but this is a small
thing! She is not a man; she is not a black; she cannot work; but
wont she eat and talk ! They all eat and talk ! I take a club sometimes
and knock them down ; beat them ; break their bones ; but they still eat

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and talk ! God's will be done ; but it is too much ! To put such a
thing upon me for my share ! She is good for nothing : I cannot sell
her ! "

" Yes, you can," said I. " I will give you these tobes," showing him
three or four cotton garments, which had fallen to me as my share of the
spoil.
