20 HISTORY.

ration, seized the animal with all his remaining

strength by the head ; and to save himself bit into

its upper lip. No attention was at first paid to this

slight wound, but in a short time the head of the

horse began to swell, and it eventually died. The

seyss who was covered with wounds, however, sur-

vived the torture.

A man gave his neighbour, in a quarrel, a box on

the ears ; the latter brought a complaint against him before the Defturdar. " With which hand didst

thou strike thy neighbour?" asked the tyrant.

" With the right," answered the peasant. " Well,"

replied the Defturdar, " that thou mayst not forget

it, I shall have the flesh removed from the palm of

that hand." This order was immediately executed.

" Now return to thy work," said the Defturdar to

the sufferer, who, writhing with pain, replied : " In

this state I cannot work."—"What!" exclaimed

the tyrant in a rage ; " thou darest to contradict me ! cut his tongue out, it is rather too long !" and

this operation was also immediately performed, with-

out consideration of the tortures to which he had been previously subjected.

The Defturdar one day observed, that some one had taken a pinch of snuff out of his box during his

absence ; his suspicion lighted -upon his valet ; he,

therefore, on a subsequent occasion, confined a fly

in his box and leaving it in his divan went into

another room, and ordered his servant to fetch some-

thing from the chamber in which he had put down