The King's Talisman — page 17: what you’re looking at

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S THE KINGS TALISMAN. the son of Ali Kinah, the corn merchant of Petra; but the youth, from the time spent with the old dervise upon the mountain, and from the prowess which he had displayed on several occasions, had become generally known throughout the city as “‘ The Young Lion of Mount Hor.” “Master,” said the youth, as he moved in from the end of the bench to escape the hot rays of the sun which had been gradually gaining over the cliff, ‘‘ you say my educa- tion is finished.” ‘‘Nay; I said no such a thing, my child.” ‘But you said I could receive no more instruction from you.” , ‘¢ Ah, that I did say; but there is one teacher whom. yet you have to study, and to whom I am but as a single sand upon yonder desert.’ ‘‘There you are wrong, master.” . «¢ Wrong?” ‘‘Yes, wrong. Sucha simile is not good. You might have said that, compared with the teacher of whom you speak, you were but asasingle oasis by the verge of nature’s richest gardens. When earth affords such storehouses of similitudes, let us seek those which may best accord with our meaning.” ‘In truth, I am corrected,” replied Abdah Nazor, as he gazed with admiration upon the features of his pupil. **No, I will never again draw a similitude of my Maker, from the desert waste.” ‘Nor of yourself, from one of its burning sands.” ‘¢ Perhaps not, though I am still but a mote in the great eye of Truth, for even but now I have learned of my pupil a lesson.” | ‘Ay, and I would learn more of thee,” the young man said, as he laid his hand upon the shoulder of the old der- vise, ‘‘ for your mind is yet stored with treasures of which I have as yet had but a single glimmer.” sm. Eomichbooks (alo)