alas! the cat had eaten the eye. What was he to do? On
the inspiration of the moment he snatched out the eye of the cat, and
placing it in the Cadi's head, bound it up.

Some time after the surgeon asked the Cadi how he saw.

"Oh," replied the Cadi, "with my old eye I see as usual, but strange
to say, the new eye you placed in my head is continually searching and
watching for rat holes."

THE PRAYER RUG AND THE DISHONEST STEWARD

A poor Hamal (porter) brought to the Pasha of Stamboul his savings,
consisting of a small canvas bag of medjidies (Turkish silver
dollars), to be kept for him, while he was absent on a visit to his
home. The Pasha, being a kind-hearted man, consented, and after
sealing the bag, called his steward, instructing him to keep it till
the owner called for it. The steward gave the man a receipt, to the
effect that he had received a sealed bag containing money.

When the poor man returned, he went to the Pasha and received his bag
of money. On reaching his room he opened the bag, and to his horror
found that it contained, instead of the medjidies he had put in it,
copper piasters, which are about the same size as medjidies. The poor
Hamal was miserable, his hard-earned savings gone.

He at last gathered courage to go and put his case before the Pasha.
He took the bag of piasters, and with trembling voice and faltering
heart he assured the Pasha that though he had received his bag
apparently intact, on opening it he found that it contained copper
piasters and not the medjidies he had put in it. The Pasha took the
bag, examined it closely, and after some time noticed a part that had
apparently been darned by a master-hand. The Pasha told the Hamal to
go away and come back in a week; in the meantime he would see what he
could do for him. The grateful man departed, uttering prayers for the
life and prosperity of his Excellency.

The next morning after the Pasha had said his prayers kneeling on a
most magnificent and expensive rug, he took a knife and cut a long
rent in it. He then left his Konak without saying a word to any one.
In the evening when he returned he found that the rent had been so
well repaired that it was with difficulty that he discovered where it
had been. Calling his steward, he demanded who had repaired his prayer
rug. The steward told the Pasha that he thought the rug had been cut
by accident by some of the servants, so he had sent to the Bazaar for
the darner, Mustapha,