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I left the mosque as best I could, and, putting the finger of perplexity in the mouth of deliberation, I asked a harmless-looking youth of the tribe called Soffamaw, what it was the will of the Mollahs of the place that I should do next. "Oh!" said he, (and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNE LETTRE PERSANE. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

* Poetical Editor. Is this Hafiz? It sounds very familiar. Chorus of Editors. Well, don't you ever read Hafiz? Poetical Editor. Hardly ever.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNE LETTRE PERSANE. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

Editor who has charge of the dead and other foreign languages. Are you quite sure about pajama? I thought it meant under - Editor (friend of the oppressed Persian). Nonsense. Don't you suppose a native knows what he's talking about?

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNE LETTRE PERSANE. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

By the way, I met several of your men last summer, and was surprised to see them attempt to imitate us in dress and manners. Why is it, when most of the people in the States accuse us of being conservative snobs, that they come over here and copy these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

By attentive listening I found this to be the lamentation of a select body of young men (being all spoiled children, they call themselves the S. Poils Society) over the shortcomings of their fellow-men (cribbing, cutting, etc.). This was getting too depressing to stand. I was not a pessimist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIBULATIONS. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »