he would often say boy bring some of its little 7 or less and prepare for us cold water and more of it. he would say everything in the world has changed and has been altered and transformed even eating. may god curse the men with whom we used to eat. i never saw a dish lifted from their hands except that there was some left in it. they knew that bringing a kid was only one of the high tables and it was made like a consequence and a conclusion and like a sign of ease and leisure and that it was not brought to be torn apart and destroyed and that if its people wanted to harm it they would have put it before everything else so that it would be sharpened. rather no one would eat from it when it was brought except the frivolous and the one who if he did not see it
وكان كثيرا ما يقول يا غلام هات شيئا من قليه ٧ وأقل منها وأعد لنا ماء باردا وأكثر منه. وكان يقول قد تغير كل شيء من أمر الدنيا، وحال عن أمره وتبدل، حتى المؤاكلة. قاتل الله رجالا كنا نؤاكلهم، ما رأيت قصعة قط رفعت من بين أيديهم إلا وفيها فضل. وكانوا يعلمون أن إحضار الجدي إنما هو شيء من آيين ٨ الموائد الرفيعة، وإنما جعل كالعاقبة والخاتمة، وكالعلامة لليسر وللفراغ، وأنه لم يحضر للتمزيق والتخريب، وأن أهله لو أرادوا به السوء لقدموه قبل كل شيء لتقع الحدة به. بل ما يأكل منه إذا جيء به إلا العابث، وإلا الذي لو لم يره