Tarboosh

The tarboosh, or fez, once a ubiquitous piece of headwear across the Middle East, has largely disappeared, but may be coming back in revised form.

He went to the Pyramids and Syria, and there left his malady behind him, and returned with a fine beard, and a supply of tarbooshes and nargillies, with which he regales all his friends.

He rehearsed all the afternoon how he should play the heavy father for the young man's edification till he reduced his children to helpless giggling. Just before he was due Athelny routed out an Egyptian tarboosh and insisted on putting it on.

They were for their part astonished, for nobody had told them to expect a pretty woman to dinner, and the Prince suggested an intriguing exoticism with his tarboosh.

The man in the tarboosh turned finally and nodded in a strangely familiar way.