Our Little Persian Cousin

ces from age the week before. Nana had not found time as yet to finish a new one. The shirt was a dirty brown, although if one could have exam

d the shirt thoroughly, while he stood beside her shivering in the cool breeze. When at last it looked somewhat cleaner she wrung the water from it as well as she could, and put it back upon

erely, and his head was very hot. Na

it for some time. The Evil Eye must have struck him then. Why did I not keep him dressed in Fatima's clothes, so that the Ev

llah, and have him write another charm; pe

did

re twenty evil spirits in your son, they will all run away whe

holy man?" she said, "I have only twe

mullah, "I am God's servant, and He is me

Dada looked very anxious. "Women are donkeys," he

e cut a vein with his razor, and caught the blood in a bowl, but Karim became worse. The ne

he pointed to the largest of the old biddies-"and with its blood and a mouse's eye

ee and some other wo

an told grandmother to take a rooster and cut it in two, and ti

as cured of a cough by lying in the

with the bleeding body of the old rooster pressed tightly against his chest, while the charms

arm; Grandmother believed in the dead rooster, while Dada

self again, and as he was fretful his

. The others were v

X AND

fox, and such a good man was buried in that city that simply visiting his grave was

ked fox and am going to

bad, too, and ought to go

ther, and after a

ked, and when they had told

e were walking, and, suddenly jumping upon the wolf when he did not expect it, caught him with their teeth in the neck and killed him. Then they each took a part of the body

ere was not much of a meal to be made off of him. The fox went into the corner of the cav

ed, and asked, "What can

I have pulled out my left eye, and am eating

the bear, and he pulled out

in the corner once more smacking his lips very loudly,

so hungry that I pulled out m

h things!" thought the bear, and he p

e would take hold of the other end he would lead him (since he was blind) to a plac

s a large, fat sheep right

en the fox ate the body of the bear, and it made him strong enough to go on an