He said, "One day I attended their office to see their arrangement. From what I saw, the king among them is the one who provides for his subjects. They reached what they reached. I saw that when the food was ready, an innumerable creation would stop. Their number was numerous. They called them the tax collectors, and they were the messengers of the people of every household. The trustee would give him from the kitchen according to the amount of his family, and the tax collector would take it and go away." As for what is divided among them by one person, who has no other hands, according to the level of the collectors, he scoops in one time for each person his food in his bowl and goes away, and what is left of that is put into a treasury. When that share is finished with them, he enters the treasury, takes what is left over, and goes out with it to the tramps who are at the door of the king’s house. So he throws it to them and they eat it, and so on every day, every king has a per