Note 225 — Chapter X

Although Bakáwalí and Rúh-afzá are supposed to be fairies, yet they act as real flesh-and-blood women. And how like is this charming little scene between the two affectionate girls to what has doubtless occurred thousands of times amongst ourselves! If there be, as that shrewd observer Sam Slick assures us, “a deal of human natur’ in man,” there is, as certainly, a deal of woman nature in woman all the world over.