. The adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan. he offices ofthe bath. No one understood better than I the differentmodes of rubbing or shampooing, as practised in India,Cashmere, and Turkey ; and I had an art peculiar to myselfof making the joints to crack, and my slaps echo. Thanks to my master, I had learnt sufficiently of ourpoets to enable me to enliven conversation with occasionalapt quotations from Saadi, Hafiz, etc. ; this accomplishment,added to a good voice, made me considered as an agreeablecompanion by all those whose crowns or limbs were submittedto my operation. In short, it may, with
. The adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan. he offices ofthe bath. No one understood better than I the differentmodes of rubbing or shampooing, as practised in India,Cashmere, and Turkey ; and I had an art peculiar to myselfof making the joints to crack, and my slaps echo. Thanks to my master, I had learnt sufficiently of ourpoets to enable me to enliven conversation with occasionalapt quotations from Saadi, Hafiz, etc. ; this accomplishment,added to a good voice, made me considered as an agreeablecompanion by all those whose crowns or limbs were submittedto my operation. In short, it may, without vanity, beasserted that Hajji Baba was quite the fashion among themen of taste and pleasure. My fathers shop being situated near the Royal Cara-vanserai, the largest and most frequented in the city, wasthe common resort of the foreign, as well as of the resident,merchants ; they not unfrequently gave hiirj something overand above the usual price for the entertainment they foundin the repartees of his hopeful son. One of them, a Bagdad. Ilajji shaves the camel-driver. THE ADVENTURES OF HAJJI BABA merchant, took great fancy to me, and always insisted thatI should attend upon him in preference even to my moreexperienced father. He made me converse with him inTurkish, of which I had acquired a slight knowledge, andso excited my curiosity by describing the beauties of thedifferent cities which he had visited, that I soon felt astrong desire to travel. He was then in want of some oneto keep his accounts, and as I associated the two qualificationsof barber and scribe, he made me such advantageous offers,to enter into his service, that 1 agreed to follow him ; andimmediately mentioned my determination to my father. Myfather was very loth to lose me, and endeavoured to persuademe not to leave a certain profession for one which waslikely to be attended with danger and vicissitudes; butwhen he found how advantageous were the merchants offers,and that it was not impossible that I might
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