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SYAAD IIARSI1IM. 249
saying, ' There, Syaad Harshim, 1 have done
as you desired.'—' Very good,' replied her hus-
band, ' now you must farther oblige me by
drinking it—you know there is nothing in this
water but the sweat of my body produced by
my daily labour.' The wife, disgusted at the
strange request of her husband, looked with
amazement, and fancied he must have lost
his senses. ' What is this you require of me?
would you poison your wife, O Syaad Harsham,
with the filth from your skin, the accumulation
of many days' labour in the jungles? art thou
mad, to ask thy wife a request so unheard-of?'
" ' Listen to me, wife,' said the Syaad, in
gentle terms; ' you profess to love, honour, and
respect me, as your faithful, lawful husband;
pray can the dirt from my body be more offen-
sive to your palate than the scum of Nadir
Shaah, whom you only know by name ? You
would have accepted the filthy offerings of a
cruel man, who plundered and sacrificed his
victims to obtain the treasures he possesses;—
you would not have scrupled to obtain your
future sustenance by the coins of Nadir Shaah,
saying, ' There, Syaad Harshim, 1 have done
as you desired.'—' Very good,' replied her hus-
band, ' now you must farther oblige me by
drinking it—you know there is nothing in this
water but the sweat of my body produced by
my daily labour.' The wife, disgusted at the
strange request of her husband, looked with
amazement, and fancied he must have lost
his senses. ' What is this you require of me?
would you poison your wife, O Syaad Harsham,
with the filth from your skin, the accumulation
of many days' labour in the jungles? art thou
mad, to ask thy wife a request so unheard-of?'
" ' Listen to me, wife,' said the Syaad, in
gentle terms; ' you profess to love, honour, and
respect me, as your faithful, lawful husband;
pray can the dirt from my body be more offen-
sive to your palate than the scum of Nadir
Shaah, whom you only know by name ? You
would have accepted the filthy offerings of a
cruel man, who plundered and sacrificed his
victims to obtain the treasures he possesses;—
you would not have scrupled to obtain your
future sustenance by the coins of Nadir Shaah,