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, survived 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, without 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 something from the chamber in which he had put down