Mucking in

p 280, line, Roberts, 48 x 97 mm

Signature, 'William Roberts', brc. Fourteen men seated and standing around a huge communal feeding dish.

p 248 [tr ed pp 266/7] - 'We feigned a deafness, as manners demanded: at last we heard him, and looked surprised at one another, each urging his fellow to move first; till Nasir rose coyly, and after him we all came forward to sink on one knee round the tray, wedging in and cuddling up till the twenty-two for whom there was barely space were grouped around the food. We turned back our right sleeves to the elbow, and, taking lead from Nasir with a low "In the name of God the merciful, the loving-kind", we dipped together.'

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