Show HOW THEY WERE PUNISHED A method ot ula family dr jessum biach a native of ciuda debt lodged upon the ground floor of a house on bulak street where he had an extensive practice among the turk iba population the flat above was occupied by a bey and his harem composed of three or four women who as is the custom acro jealously secluded from the gaze of all male creatures during the night of the first earthquake says a french paper dr bloch lay on his couch sleeping the sleep bof the just and all unconscious of impending danger when suddenly the catastrophe came the earth trembled houses hockedy cracked and toppled over and among the rest the house on bulak street which collapsed coll aped like a house of cards the poor doctor started up dyben he saw to his horror burst asunder and amid a shower of miscellaneous articles a of ladies dropped down upon him in the attire worn by the harem the doctor and the women escaped into the open air and m consideration of dr biochi innocence the stem refrained from taking vengeance on the gimour the two women on questioned by the grand mufti were however drowned in alie i e not actually drowned only symbolically so to speak for they were sewn up n sacks and immersed in the water and immediately drawn out again their expiation accomplished |