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" as I am, I do not want for good eye-sight; " as you must needs believe, when I tell " you I sewed a dead body together the "other day, where I had not so good a light as I have now." " A dead body !" exclaimed the robber, "you mean, I suppose, that you sewed up " the winding sheet for a dead body." " I mean no such thing,' replied Musta- " pha, I tell you I sewed the four quarters " of a man together." This was enough to convince the robber he had luckily met with the very man who could give him the information he was in search of: However he did not wish to ap- pear eager to learn the particulars, lest he should alarm the old cobler. He therefore began to laugh: “Ha, ha!” said he, “I " find, good Mr Cobler, that you perceive " I am a stranger here, and you wish to " make me believe that the people of your " city do impossible things.” "I tell you," said Mustapha, in a loud and angry tone, “ I sewed a dead body to- " gether with my own hands." " "Then I suppose you can tell me also " where you performed this wonderful bus- " iness?" Upon this, Mustapha related every par- ticular of his being led blindfold to the house, &c. " Well, my friend," said the robber, "'tis "a fine story, I confess, but not very easy
