The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1843-03-18


them that may save something at break
fast"
A father at Bufa said 10 his son,
DO as you see me doing instead Of
eating meat, hold your bread in the steam
of your neighbours pot"
A mser of kula hearing that there was
a celebrated miser at Bassora, to whom
all other misers might go to school, re-
solved to go and take lessons of him. He
went and told him wherefore he was
come. "Ihou art welcome" said he of
Bassora; 1--WE will go now to the market
to make purchases They went to t e
baker ''lIast thou good bread?" Gal
your service, gentlemen, flesh and white
as butter" Thou seest," said he of
Bassora to him Of Kula, ''that butter is
better than bread; which was compared to
it, and we shall do better to get butter"
They went to the butter seller and asked
if he had good butter" "At your service,
butter fresh and sweet as the incest oil OF
olives" "Thou heares,," said the host,
"the best butter is compared with
oil, which must be far preftr~ble." They
went to the oil merchant. Hast thou
good ol?' "The very best; bright and
clear as water" ''Ho! no !" cried he Of
Bassora to him Of Kufa, "then water is the
best diet of all; have whole tubfu of
it at home, with which will entertain
thee nobly." And in fact, he set moth
ing but water before his guest; since wat
er was better than oil, oil than butter, and
butter than bread. "GoD be praised!" said
the miser Of Kufa, ST have not made my
journey i'll vain, but have learned some
thing of value.'
came one time (sald Asmai, the cele-
brated poet of the court of Haruner-
Rashid,) to tribe of Bedouins, in the
wilderness. A crowd of women and
gl'ls fastened when they saw me, laid
hold on the bride of nv camel. took
me down, unglrt the beast, and tended
and fed it. For three days they enter
tanned me in the most friendly manner:
bu, when, on the fourth, prepared to
DEPART no one would help me to saddle
my camel. expressed surprise at this,
and one OF the maidens answered, ertem-
pore.
IAN honour t is for us the coming guest to
serve,
l'ut if we aid his flight disgrace We we'll de-
sCIve.n
| The Arabs are in the habit of lighting
fires in the wilderness, during the long
dark nights, to direct travellers who are
gone astray, and lead them to where they
will be entertained The name given to
these fires is Fire Of The IAlag1s. or Of
HoSpiia1iy"
Asma said that, one wild stormy night,
he came to one Of these fires. and found
at it all Arab, VIII, was cheering his
slaves TO keep it up, with these verses.
"1he night Is black, the storm whirls high the
| sand,
u wandering Sons Of the ray it brings to me,
|
Asmai approached, and was received
with the utmost hospitality. The slave
who had kept up the fire was given the
promised freedom on the spot.
lie abode there three days; every day
camel was killed, and Asmai was never
troubled with the usual questions as to
who he was, whence he came. and
whittier he was going. lie expressed his
surprise at this. llbcralily to his host, who
replied
"lf ask not my guest whence and whittier his
IT'S because would have him here with me to
stay"
A well known Arabian horse.stealer
once related, as follows, what had belal-
len him in the DESERT
once, as ! was astray in the desert,
came to "a tribe of Bedouins. They re-
celved me with great hospitality, and
killed camel every day on my account.
prayed them not to put themselves to
such inconvenience, but to let me depart.
Still they would hot suffer me to 60. and
every day they killed camel. At length
one day got All opportunity, drove off
a fleet camel. mounted it, and went away
with all speed. The owner, who saw
me going off with his camel, mounted and
pursued me. When he had brought me
back he pointed TO stake that was lying
in the sand, "Seest thou" said he, the
tail of that snake there? will hit it with
this arrow" He shot, and the arrow
pierced the poin, of the tail. "And with
this arrow said he, as he drew forth
second, ~ will hit its head" lie sho, the
snakes head in two. ''lhou seest now,n
said he, shat with this third arrow