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 A few feet further a "muhad'dit" or story teller, had drawn around him a circle of curiosity seekers, who were listening for the thousandth time to the same old tales.

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 Close by, a little Negro danced to the sound of a kind of flute, while closely veiled women, mounted on donkeys, rode slowly past.
 Although he was jolly, and the effects of his drinking bout still lingered in his brain, he forgot nothing.