Part 10 (1/2)

TOM said it happened like this

A dervish was stu hot day, and he had cory, and ornery and tired, and along about where we are now he run across a camel-driver with a hundred camels, and asked him for some a'ms But the cameldriver he asked to be excused The dervish said:

”Don't you own these camels?”

”Yes, they're mine”

”Are you in debt?”

”Who--me? No”

”Well, a man that owns a hundred camels and ain't in debt is rich--and not only rich, but very rich Ain't it so?”

The camel-driver owned up that it was so Then the dervish says:

”God has made you rich, and He has made me poor He has His reasons, and they are wise, blessed be His name But He has willed that His rich shall help His poor, and you have turned away from me, your brother, in my need, and He will remember this, and you will lose by it”

That made the caish after un to whine and explain, and said tiht down to Balsora and got a fat rate for it, he couldn't git no return freight, and so he warn't s out of his trip So the dervish starts along again, and says:

”All right, if you want to take the risk; but I reckon you've made a mistake this time, and missed a chance”

Of course the camel-driver wanted to knohat kind of a chance he had missed, because maybe there was ed him so hard and earnest to take pity on hiave in, and says:

”Do you see that hill yonder? Well, in that hill is all the treasures of the earth, and I was looking around for a enerous disposition, because if I could find just that ot a kind of a salve I could put on his eyes and he could see the treasures and get them out”

So then the caed, and took on, and went down on his knees, and said he was just that kind of a man, and said he could fetch a thousand people that would say he wasn't ever described so exact before

”Well, then,” says the dervish, ”all right If we load the hundred calad he couldn't hardly hold in, and says:

”Now you're shouting”

So they shook hands on the bargain, and the dervish got out his box and rubbed the salve on the driver's right eye, and the hill opened and he went in, and there, sure enough, was piles and piles of gold and jewels sparkling like all the stars in heaven had fell down

So him and the dervish laid into it, and they loaded every caood-bye, and each of them started off with his fifty But pretty soon the ca and overtook the dervish and says:

”You ain't in society, you know, and you don't really need all you've got Won't you be good, and let me have ten of your camels?”

”Well,” the dervish says, ”I don't know but what you say is reasonable enough”

So he done it, and they separated and the dervish started off again with his forty But pretty soon here coain, and whines and sobrs around and begs another ten off of hih to see a dervish through, because they live very siive their note

But that warn't the end yet That ornery hound kept coed back all the camels and had the whole hundred Then he was satisfied, and ever so grateful, and said he wouldn't ever forgit the dervish as long as he lived, and nobody hadn't been so good to hiood-bye, and separated and started off again

But do you know, it warn't ten ain--he was the lonest reptyle in seven counties--and he coet the dervish to rub some of the salve on his other eye