1 LIFE OF' A BAK£B.
2 988
3 'Wmk' M.IMiB'mm'M dnUar, he spent a gent 'deal aPldi
4 iSmt hoam (tC tkTmtfkhAm winy hMl made wnto money, and
5 tttiMd Mar baaiBM' The ftHeiriiig la Ids aeebntat of the fife wlueli
6 tkta iniii led*
7 MK Duiiek uaed to go to tliesbakH^s bouie eaify in the morning ;
8 idid general^ ibaiid hun sitthig wiA a ldnd^of Mocnah, who lived ia
9 Ihe houK'wHh hmk Ihe morning devotiena did not ooeami anj
10 iBlemiplkn> aa die baher> addom prayed* .and' the 'MeoOah nerer.
11 3ha letter had fetmhan the woiM, rind did not bbwrvefixima, {Ivmif
12 dnde he wria« Soofee). Their bceakftifc waa btead and soiip» wtUeh
13 waa aometimes made at home, and sometimes 'locdned from a ioop
14 Aop. Mr. Dune sekbm breakfi»ted wiUi ihamf and aeldom met
15 atningeiA there at that hour. When breakfast waa orea> thej retired .
16 talo a QOnrUTard behmd the houses where thc^ weie soon joined by a
17 number of visitora. They sat on carpets^ and smoaked tobacco. The
18 Moollah sometimes smoaked the intoxieating drug called Chirs, of
19 which some of the visitors occa«onally partook ; but most of them
20 preferred plain tobacco. Tliey also used to eat firuit and drink Sher-
21 but occasionallv, in the course of the day. The company tisod to
22 converse soberlv and pleasantly ; but, m the visitors were gi iierally
23 Afghauns, the (omeniation was often in Fushttw, which Mr, Dm ie
24 did not understand. They iised also to pkv a name of the nature ol
25 back-gammon, and to wrestle, and pertbrm tlif nthK tic exercises used
26 in their counti v, as in India and Persia. It xvoiihi take a great deal
27 ot time Lo dciici ibe those exercises, or the uiuumcrable postures which
28 wreisilers are taught to aasume. Some of the principal exercises, I
29 may, however, notice. In one of them, the performer places himself
30 on his hands and toes, with his anus stifi*, and his body horizontal,
31 at a distance from the ground. He then throws his body forward^
32 and at the same thne bends hia anna; ao diat hb chesl and iMSf
33 afanost Bweep the grouadL When hit^'hodf ia aa ftr-lhrown tmmd
34 aBpossibk^ he dranmi k hadk to iiie ntmortr stiai|^tena hn aKme»
35 is prepafed to xepeat Ihe motiim. A person mmsed to'thia ekeedni
36 «>qMnotpeffo^ktepthneswHhoqthiteniilwkwi
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