etter knows enough to not let on. I never see such a
big church in my life before, and most awful high, it was; it made you
dizzy to look up; our village church at home ain't a circumstance to it;
if you was to put it in there, people would think it was a drygoods box.

What I wanted to see was a dervish, because I was interested in
dervishes on accounts of the one that played the trick on the
camel-driver. So we found a lot in a kind of a church, and they called
themselves Whirling Dervishes; and they did whirl, too. I never
see anything like it. They had tall sugar-loaf hats on, and linen
petticoats; and they spun and spun and spun, round and round like tops,
and the petticoats stood out on a slant, and it was the prettiest thing
I ever see, and made me drunk to look at it. They was all Moslems, Tom
said, and when I asked him what a Moslem was, he said it was a person
that wasn't a Presbyterian. So there is plenty of them in Missouri,
though I didn't know it before.

We didn't see half there was to see in Cairo, because Tom was in such a
sweat to hunt out places that was celebrated in history. We had a most
tiresome time to find the granary where Joseph stored up the grain
before the famine, and when we found it it warn't worth much to look
at, being such an old tumble-down wreck; but Tom was satisfied, and made
more fuss over it than I would make if I stuck a nail in my foot. How
he ever found that place was too many for me. We passed as much as forty
just like it before we come to it, and any of them would 'a' done for
me, but none but just the right one would suit him; I never see anybody
so particular as Tom Sawyer. The minute he struck the right one he
reconnized it as easy as I would reconnize my other shirt if I had one,
but how he done it he couldn't any more tell than he could fly; he said
so himself.

Then we hunted a long time for the house where the boy lived that
learned the cadi how to try the case of the old olives and the new ones,
and said it was out of the Arabian Nights, and he would tell me and Jim
about it when he got time. Well, we hunted and hunted till I was ready
to drop, and I wanted Tom to give it up and come next day and git
somebody that knowed the town and could talk Missourian and could go
straight to the place; but no, he wanted to find it himself, and nothing
else would answer. So on we went. Then at last the remarkablest
thing happened I ever see. The house was gone--gone hundreds o