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"As I proceeded the next morning across the waste" (continued Mahmoud / to his nephews on their next visit) "I turned over in my mind how / best to employ the considerable sum which my honest mule bore so / patiently upon his back. Here was a year's sustenance for fifty / labourers or more, and with so much money a man earns more. For, as / it is written in the Holy Book, ‘_The labourer is worthy of his hire, / but whatever is over is not for him_. ' And again, ‘_Blessed are the / poor_.'
"There are not wanting occasions for the employment of poorer men and / the gathering of the fruits of their labour into one's own pouch. But / there is one difficulty in all such matters, which is the point of / judgment.