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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.