. More tales from the Arabian nights . have my head,saying to the boy: Fetch me a barber who is not im-pertinent and who talketh little. The boy went and brought this sheikh. He enteredmy apartment, saluted me and said: May Allahdispel thy grief and anxiety, and misfortune and sor-rows! I answered: May Allah accept thy then said: Be cheerful, O my master, dost thouwish to be shaved or bled? and he continued for sometime to discourse in this wise. Stop, said I, thissenseless chatter, and shave my head immediately. But the barber arose and drawing forth a handker-chief unfolded it and
. More tales from the Arabian nights . have my head,saying to the boy: Fetch me a barber who is not im-pertinent and who talketh little. The boy went and brought this sheikh. He enteredmy apartment, saluted me and said: May Allahdispel thy grief and anxiety, and misfortune and sor-rows! I answered: May Allah accept thy then said: Be cheerful, O my master, dost thouwish to be shaved or bled? and he continued for sometime to discourse in this wise. Stop, said I, thissenseless chatter, and shave my head immediately. But the barber arose and drawing forth a handker-chief unfolded it and took from it an astrolabe. Hewent to the door and after looking for some time at thesun, said: Know that on this day, which is the tenthof the month Safar of the year 263 of the flight of theProphet, the ascendant star of which, according tothe rules of astrology, is the planet Mars, it happeneththat the planet Mercury hath come in conjunctionwith that other planet, and this indicateth that it isnow a fortunate time to shave the I AM HE WHOM PEOPLE CALL EL SAMIT THE SILENT! The Young Man and the Barber 33 Verily, exclaimed I, thou weariest me with thychatter. The time passeth rapidly, therefore arise andshave my head at once. If thou but knew the truthof the case, he answered, thou wouldst praise, notblame me; for know, O my master, I am he whom peoplecall El Samit The Silent, because of the fewness of mywords, and he continued talking in this wise for sometime, until my patience became exhausted and I said tothe boy: Give this barber a quarter of a piece of gold,and bid him begone. What is this thou sayest? exclaimed the barber,know, O my lord, that I will accept no pay unless Iserve thee. Know also that thy father sent for me oneblessed day, and when I went to him, he was surroundedby many friends, and he said: Bleed me; so I tookthe astrolabe, and- at this I gave vent to my rageand would have thrust the barber out; but he wetted myhead, and said: I will not be angry w
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