CHAPTER XIII. GOING FOR TOM'S PIPE:

BY AND BY we left Jim to float around up there in the neighborhood
of the pyramids, and we clumb down to the hole where you go into the
tunnel, and went in with some Arabs and candles, and away in there in
the middle of the pyramid we found a room and a big stone box in it
where they used to keep that king, just as the man in the Sunday-school
said; but he was gone, now; somebody had got him. But I didn't take no
interest in the place, because there could be ghosts there, of course;
not fresh ones, but I don't like no kind.

So then we come out and got some little donkeys and rode a piece, and
then went in a boat another piece, and then more donkeys, and got to
Cairo; and all the way the road was as smooth and beautiful a road as
ever I see, and had tall date-pa'ms on both sides, and naked children
everywhere, and the men was as red as copper, and fine and strong and
handsome. And the city was a curiosity. Such narrow streets--why, they
were just lanes, and crowded with people with turbans, and women with
veils, and everybody rigged out in blazing bright clothes and all sorts
of colors, and you wondered how the camels and the people got by each
other in such narrow little cracks, but they done it--a perfect jam, you
see, and everybody noisy. The stores warn't big enough to turn around
in, but you didn't have to go in; the storekeeper sat tailor fashion on
his counter, smoking his snaky long pipe, and had his things where he
could reach them to sell, and he was just as good as in the street, for
the camel-loads brushed him as they went by.

Now and then a grand person flew by in a carriage with fancy dressed men
running and yelling in front of it and whacking anybody with a long rod
that didn't get out of the way. And by and by along comes the Sultan
riding horseback at the head of a procession, and fairly took your
breath away his clothes was so splendid; and everybody fell flat and
laid on his stomach while he went by. I forgot, but a feller helped me
to remember. He was one that had a rod and run in front.

There was churches, but they don't know enough to keep Sunday; they keep
Friday and break the Sabbath. You have to take off your shoes when you
go in. There was crowds of men and boys in the church, setting in groups
on the stone floor and making no end of noise--getting their lessons
by heart, Tom said, out of the Koran, which they think is a Bible, and
people that knows b