This examination was soon made, and the party was plundered of one thousand piasters, (forty-four dollars,) besides razors, knives, and a quantity of clothing.

Nay, morethe government would allow each hostage four piasters a day for food, a cook would be brought down from Constantinople and meals served in a restaurant, that they might be saved, as his secretary observed, from the unlovely "odeurs de'cuisine.

a day; the table d'hote a piaster (4s.); but washing is more expensive than anything else, on account of the great scarcity of water, for every article, large or small, costs a real (6d.).

She charged forty piasters (8s.), and put down a good round sum in the bill for servants' fees and such like.

"I shall wear a robe the size of an Arabian tent, and I shall surround myself with soft pillows, and I shall wheeze when I breathe andwho knows?perhaps some dark-eyed young man worth a million piasters will be deceived, and will come to you to-morrow, and buy mebuy me at so much a pound." And she shrieked with laughter.

"What would that be in piasters?"

How could one man be worth four hundred million piasters?" "Say, if you'll give me a pencil and a pad of paper and about a half-day's time, I'll figure out for you what Henry Frick is worth in piasters and then you would have a fit.

How could one man be worth four hundred million piasters?" "Say, if you'll give me a pencil and a pad of paper and about a half-day's time, I'll figure out for you what Henry Frick is worth in piasters and then you would have a fit.

"Can it be possible that you, a man worth millions of piasters, an exalted ruler, a Noble of the Mystic Shrine, have deliberately chosen this waspy, weedy" "Let up!" said Mr. Pike sharply.

"A hundred piasters for the timseach," I exclaimed, and half-a-dozen Arabs plunged into the stream.

He demands three piasters for his Alfieri, which he offers for sale and which is said to be as large as his Galvani.

Of course they had no papers except for the French group, but in South America twenty-five years ago a piaster was a piaster.

Of course they had no papers except for the French group, but in South America twenty-five years ago a piaster was a piaster.

I loaned you eighty-seven piasters on it!' "'But I've got an equity in it!

I'll harry you and fluster you and heckle you and make a fool of you, and I'll roll you up in a ball and blow you out the window, and turn old Hassoun loose for an Egyptian holiday that will make old Rome look like thirty piasters!

"Not a piaster of profit.

"Fifty thousand piasters!"

"Fifty thousand piasters!

Fifty thousand piasters!

And to toss backsheesh over to the crowd on the bank as the steamer moves away is to see every one of them roll over in the dirt and fight and scratch like cats over half a piaster.

Yea, 'Twas greenish silkwith ten piasters in't! 2D PETIT.