The Story of Sidi-Nouman 3

The baker ¹, who had of course been only in joke, was exceedingly surprised at my cleverness, and the woman, who was at last convinced that the man spoke ² the truth, produced another piece of money in its place. When she had gone, my master was so pleased that he told all the neighbours what I had done, and made a great deal more of it than there really was. , ,The neighbours, very naturally, declined to believe his story, and tried me several times with all the bad money they could collect together, but I never failed to stand the test triumphantly ³. , ,Soon, the shop was filled from morning till night, with people who on the pretence⁴ of（托辞） buying bread came to see if I was as clever as I was reported to be. The baker drove a roaring trade, and admitted that I was worth my weight in gold to him. , , ,Now my thoughts were always running on some means of shaking off the spell laid on me, and noticing the way in which this woman had looked at me, the idea entered my head that perhaps she might have guessed what had happened, and in this I was not deceived. However I let her go on a little way, and merely stood at the door watching her. She turned, and seeing that I was quite still, she again beckoned ⁷ to me. , ,The baker all this while was busy with his oven, and had forgotten all about me, so I stole out softly, and ran after the woman. , ,The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。,They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的 。