of magic sweets.

HASSAN
I am ready to all things, ingenious Selim; but do you know
a good magician?

SELIM
Zachariah, the Jew, has but lately arrived from Aleppo:
he is the talk of all the market place, and a wonderful man if
tales be true.

HASSAN
Have you the tales?

SELIM
I have this among many. They say that in Bokhara a man called him
an offensive Jew and flung a stone at his head: and he caused the
stone to be suspended in the air and the man too, so that the man walked
all round Bokhara over the heads of the passers-by, who were
astonished, and was constrained to enter his house by the upper window.

HASSAN
(Incredulous) Mashallah!

SELIM
And stranger than that. At Ispahan men say he took off the dome
of the Great Mosque and turned it round and had a bath in it,
and put it back again.

HASSAN