Part 10 (2/2)
”Why?” said the dervish
”Oh, you know,” says the driver
”Knohat?”
”Well, you can't foolfrohty well You know, I reckon, that if I had the salve on the other eye I could see a lot s that's valuable Come--please put it on”
The dervish says:
”I wasn't keeping anything back fro you ould happen if I put it on You'd never see again You'd be stone-blind the rest of your days”
But do you know that beat wouldn't believe hied, and whined and cried, till at last the dervish opened his box and told him to put it on, if he wanted to So the h he was as blind as a bat in a hed at him and mocked at him and made fun of hiot no use for jewelry”
And he cleared out with the hundred camels, and left that man to wander around poor and miserable and friendless the rest of his days in the Desert
Jim said he'd bet it was a lesson to him
”Yes,” Toets
They ain't no account, because the thing don't ever happen the saain--and can't The time Hen Scovil fell down the chimbly and crippled his back for life, everybody said it would be a lesson to hi to use it? He couldn't climb chimblies no more, and he hadn't no more backs to break”
”All de sa as learnin' by expe'ence De Good Book say de burnt chile shun de fire”
”Well, I ain't denying that a thing's a lesson if it's a thing that can happen twice just the sas, and THEY educate a person, that's what Uncle Abner always said; but there's forty MILLION lots of the other kind--the kind that don't happen the same ice--and they ain't no real use, they ain't no ot it, it ain't no good to find out you ought to been vaccinated, and it ain't no good to git vaccinated afterward, because the small-pox don't come but once But, on the other hand, Uncle Abner said that the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat ho to be useful to hirow dim or doubtful But I can tell you, Jim, Uncle Abner was down on the a lesson out of everything that happens, no matter whether--”
But Jim was asleep Tom looked kind of ashamed, because you know a person always feels bad when he is talking unco, and that other person goes to sleep that way
Of course he oughtn't to go to sleep, because it's shabby; but the finer a person talks the certainer it is to make you sleep, and so when you come to look at it it ain't nobody's fault in particular; both of theun to snore--soft and blubbery at first, then a long rasp, then a stronger one, then a half a dozen horrible ones like the last water sucking down the plug-hole of a bath-tub, then the sa in, the way a cow does that is choking to death; and when the person has got to that point he is at his level best, and can wake up a man that is in the next block with a dipperful of loddanuh all that awful noise of his'n ain't but three inches fro in the world, seeht the candle, and that little bit of a noise will fetch him I wish I knoas the reason of that, but there don't see the whole Desert, and yanking the animals out, foron up there; there warn't nobody nor nothing that was as close to the noise as HE was, and yet he was the only cretur that wasn't disturbed by it We yelled at hiood; but the first time there come a little wee noise that wasn't of a usual kind it woke hiht it all over, and so has Tom, and there ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore
Jim said he hadn't been asleep; he just shut his eyes so he could listen better
To him
ThatAnd he wanted to git away froun to abuse the caot catched in so and wants to take it out of somebody else He let into the caree with hihest he could, and I had to agree with him there, too But Tom says:
”I ain't so sure You call that dervish so dreadful liberal and good and unselfish, but I don't quite see it He didn't hunt up another poor dervish, did he? No, he didn't If he was so unselfish, why didn't he go in there hi and be satisfied? No, sir, the person he was hunting for was a et aith all the treasure he could”
”Why, Mars Tom, he illin' to divide, fair and square; he only struck for fifty caet all of them by and by”
”Mars Tom, he TOLE de man de truck would make him bline”
”Yes, because he knowed thefor--a man that never believes in anybody's word or anybody's honorableness, because he ain't got none of his own I reckon there's lots of people like that dervish They swindle, right and left, but they always make the other person SEEM to swindle himself They keep inside of the letter of the law all the tiit hold of them THEY don't put the salve on--oh, no, that would be sin; but they kno to fool YOU into putting it on, then it's you that blinds yourself I reckon the dervish and the camel-driver was just a pair--a fine, snorant one, but both of them rascals, just the same”
”Mars Tom, does you reckon dey's any o' dat kind o' salve in de worl'