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2 Oriental Cairo
After this I hope that in a book, which has the saving
grace of making no poh'tical comment upon Egyptians, I
may be allowed to print a bouquet of the finest flowers of
Egyptian English which have ever been collected on one
sheet of notepaper. It was addressed to the Secretary of one
of the most important companies in Cairo, who vouches for
the authenticity of the entire document.
Respectfully herewith,
That your honour's servant is poor man in agricultural
behaviour which depends on season for the staff of life, therefore
he proposes that you will be pitiful upon and take him
into your sacred service, that he may have some permanent
labour for the support of his soul and family. Whereupon he
falls upon his family's bended knees, and implores to you on
your merciful consideration to a damnable miserable like
your honour's unfortunate petitioner.
That Your Lordship's honour's servant was too much poorly
during the last years and was resusitated by much medecines
which made magnificent excavations in coffers of your
honourable servant whose means are circumcised by his large
family consisting of five female women and three masculines,
the last of which are still taking milk from mother's chest,
and are damnable noiseful through pulmonary catastrophy in
their interior abdomens besides the above named an additional
birth is through the grace of God shortly coming to my
beloved of bosom.
That your honour's damnable servant was officiating in
several passages during all his generations becoming too much
old for absorbing hard labour in this time of faded life, but
was not drunkard nor fornicator nor thief nor swindler nor
any of this kind but was always pious, affectionate to his
numerous family consisting of the aforesaid five female women
and three males the last of whom are still milking the
parental mother.
That your Gracious honour's Lordship's servant was en-
treated to the Magistrate for employment in Municipality to
remove filth etc., but was not granted the petition ; therefore