Note 291 — Chapter VI · PUCK.
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Since writing I find this surmise to be well founded. At the present moment there is a Persian cannon (A.D. 1547) captured at Bagdad, now on exhibition in London. It bears an inscription to the effect:—
“‘Succour is from God, and victory is at hand.’ The Commander of Victory and Help, the Shah, Desiring to blot out all trace of the Turks, Ordered Dglev to make this gun. Wherever it goes it burns up lives, It spits forth flames like a dragon. It sets the world of the Turks on fire.”