like a woman, they brought him before the young lady, who laughed so heartily when she saw him, that she fell backward on the sofa where she sat.  The slaves laughed and clapped their hands, so that my brother was quite out of countenance.  The young lady got up, and still laughing, said to him, After so much complaisance for me, I should be very much in the wrong not to love you with all my heart:  but there is one thing more you must do for me; and that is, to dance as we do.  He obeyed; and the young lady and her slaves danced with him, laughing as if they had been mad.  After they had danced some time with him, they all fell upon the poor wretch, and did so box and kick him, that he fell down like one out of his senses.  The old woman helped him up again; and that he might not have time to think of his ill treatment, she bid him take courage, and whispered in his ear that all his sufferings were at an end, and that he was just about to receive his reward.

You have only one thing more to do, and that is but a small one.  You must know that my mistress has a custom, when she has drank a little, as you see she has done to-day, to let nobody that she loves come near her, except they are stripped to their shirt; and when they have done so, she takes a little advantage of them, and sets a running before them through the gallery, and from chamber to chamber, till they catch her.  This is one more of her humours:  what advantage soever she takes of you, considering your nimbleness, and inclination to the work, you will soon overtake her; strip yourself, then, to the shirt, and undress yourself without delay.

My silly brother, said the barber, had done too much to stick at any thing now.  He undressed himself; and, in the mean time, the young lady was stripped to her shift and under-petticoat, that she might run the more nimbly.  When they were ready to run, the young lady took the advantage of twenty paces, and then fell a running with surprising swiftness:  my brother followed her as fast as he could, the slaves in the mean time laughing aloud and clapping their hands.  The young lady, instead of losing ground, gained upon my brother:  she made him run three or four times round the gallery, and then running into a long dark entry, got away by a passage which she knew.  Backbarah, who still followed her, having lost sight of her in the entry, was obliged to slacken his pace, because of the darkness of the place:  at last perceiving a light, he ran towards it, and went out at a door, which was immediately shut upon him.  You may imagine he was mightily surprised to find himself in a street inhabited by curriers, and they were no less surprised to see him in his shirt, his eye-brows painted red, and without beard or mustachos; they began to clap their hands and shout at him, some of them even ran after him, and lashed his buttocks with pieces of leather.  Then they stopped, and set him upon an ass, which they met by chance, and carried him through the town exposed to the laughter of the people.