To return from my own predicament, of course, any political observer will tell you that it caused absolute uproar in the town of Siyasa. For it went against a decree that the long Beard party had pushed in the Siyasan council that everyone in the town and its surrounding areas must adopt the long Beard.34 These atrocities against these grazing innocents was intolerable! The one toothed sheikh could stand it no more, he organised parties that did double night patrols in order to protect those goats that already remained on his path. Many a night would he lose tears just thinking about such crimes. The venerable scholar developed such a keen ear that he could hear, just by the tremble of the goat’s vocal cords, that it was oppressed. He knew, by staring into the dumb eyes of the animal, he k
