Then they met Sikandar Khan coming down with a few unsaleable screws,-remnants of his string,-and Mahbub, who has more of horse-coping in his little finger nail than Sikandar Khan in all his tents, must needs buy two of the worst, and that meant eight hours' laborious diplomacy and untold tobacco.
Gero Sikandar Khanekin egin zuten topo, zaldi salduezineko batzuk zekartzala-saldu gabe geratu zitzaizkionak-eta Mahbubek, merkatariagoa baitzen behatz txikiko azkazalean Sikandar Khan bere denda guztietan baino, okerrenetako bi erosi behar izan zituen, zortzi ordutako diplomazia arduratsua eta tabako mordo galanta suposatu zuelarik tratuak. Baina zoragarria zen dena: