Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-07-28

visit his ape; and as he always carried him his
meals, and indeed, never allowed any other per-
SON to see him, the animal in the course of few
weeks became extremely attached to him
jumping on his neck and hugging and cares
sing him as soon as he entered the ROOM
About this time, as he was walking along the
streets one day, he met lad. the son of the lew
Mousa, and having enticed him into his house by
the promise of some hgs, he shut him up close
prisoner in detached apartment in his garden.
at such distance from the street and from the
other houses of the town, that the boy could not
discover to any one the place of his confinement.
The Jew, after several DAYS search, not being
able to obtain any tidlngs of him, concluded that
he had either been drowned, or had strayed out
OF the town and fallen into the hands Of some
wandering Bedouins; md as he was an only child,
fell into state of the greatest despair, till aength
he heard by accident, that just about the time
that the boy was missing. he had been seen walk.
ing in company with Hadgi Mustapha. The
trath instantly flashed on his mind. and he reeeg.
Missed in the loss of his son some stratagem, which
the Turk had planned in revenge for the affair of
the butter-jars. He Immediately summoned him
before the cadi, accused him of having the boy in
his possession, and insisted on his immediately
restoring him.
Mustapha at first strenously denied the fact;
but when one of the witnesses positively declared
that he saw the boy 90 into his house, and when
the cadi was about to pronounce his decree, that
he should bring him into court dead or alive
"Idh Mah, et .1Iahr' he exclaimed, "there is
no God but Allah, and his power is infinite; he
can work miracles when it seemeth good in his
sight. Its true, efendi,' contnuedshe, address
ing himself to the cadi, s'that ] saw the Jew
Mousa's boy passing by my house; and for the
sake of the old friendship subsisting between his
father and myself, invited him to come in and
eat some figs which had been gathering. The
boy, however, repaid my hospitality with rude
ness and abuse; nav, he even basphemed the
name of our holy prophet, but scarcely had the
words passed his lips, when TO my surprise and
horror, he was suddenly changed into monkey.
In that form | will produce him, and as a proof
that what tell YOU is true, you will see that he
will Immediately recognise his father
At this instant servant who was in waiting
on the outside let loose the ape into the divan,
who seeing the Jew was the only person present
in the dress to which he was accustomed, mistook
him for his master, JUMPED upon him, and chung
round his neck with all the expressions of fondness
which the child might have been supposed to ex-
hibit on being restored to his parent.
Nothing more was wanting to convince the au-
uieulC vi Gic tHtu vi SiOtN, - y
miracle, real miricie!" they cried out, great
is Allah, and Mahomet is his prophet;" and the
Jew was ordered to take the monkey and retire
from court. compromise was now his only
resource; and accordiagly as soon as it was dark,
and he could go unobserved, he repaired TO Mus
tapha's house, land offered, fbe would liberate his
son, to restore all the money which he had taken
from the butterjars. The Turk having attained
his object, consented to release his prisoner: but
in order to keep up his own credit, he stipulated
that the child should be removed privately. and
that the father and his whole family, should i'm
mediately quit The place. The popular belief in
the miracle thus remained mistaken; and 80 great
was the disrepute into which the Jews fell in con-
sequence ofths adventure that they all departed
one after the other, and none have ever since
been known to reside in Hannah.
TFitller's Irarcis.