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Show Tlie FuWpoTui Vizier. "I reoall the Btory of a sultan, " 6ald h i' eaa Hole, "who had a very pompous vizier, and desiring to rid himself of the vizier sold him in open markets for-a slave. . The market was not brisk that day, and the vizier brought only eight-pence. eight-pence. The sultan bought him in at this price, and thereafter whenever the vizier became pompous the sultan had only to mention 'eightpence, ' or draw the figure '8' in the air, when the pompous minister min-ister immediately subsided, " |