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A LAPSUS LIKGUiB.
intelligence, and at length we became very good
friends. The morning before I left for Alex-
andria, he rendered me a little service, for which I
paid him about ten times as much as would have
been a fair compensation, for, this time, I intended
it really as a backsheesh, or present. On receiving
it he was evidently much surprised, and, I doubt
not, felt very grateful. Soon after, as I entered
the carriage that was to take us to the steamboat,
he very kindly and with the best grace imaginable,
bade me adieu; but a few seconds later, at the very
moment of our starting, he looked at me and ut-
tered, in a low and rather timid tone, bucksheesh I
For my part, as "it is joy to think the best we may
of human kind," I am inclined to think he intended
merely to repeat his adieu, and that his organs of
speech involuntarily assumed the position proper
for uttering the word to which they were most ac-
customed.
A LAPSUS LIKGUiB.
intelligence, and at length we became very good
friends. The morning before I left for Alex-
andria, he rendered me a little service, for which I
paid him about ten times as much as would have
been a fair compensation, for, this time, I intended
it really as a backsheesh, or present. On receiving
it he was evidently much surprised, and, I doubt
not, felt very grateful. Soon after, as I entered
the carriage that was to take us to the steamboat,
he very kindly and with the best grace imaginable,
bade me adieu; but a few seconds later, at the very
moment of our starting, he looked at me and ut-
tered, in a low and rather timid tone, bucksheesh I
For my part, as "it is joy to think the best we may
of human kind," I am inclined to think he intended
merely to repeat his adieu, and that his organs of
speech involuntarily assumed the position proper
for uttering the word to which they were most ac-
customed.