"There is a Trick to Ruling!" Don't you hate a story with a moral in it?
I do.

This is an immoral story.

And, remember, I said in the beginning that it had no end, but was no more than an episode in the career of Ali Higg.

I would have liked to tell it from his viewpoint setting down what he thought of this unexpected stick thrown in his wheel, omitting most of the bad language for the censor's sake.
His first thought was that Jael had returned from the raid with a hundred and forty men.

You could tell that by the light in his eyes, even before he spoke.
"Allah reward you; you come in time! Have Ayisha and that Yussuf thrown over the cliff.