. St. Nicholas [serial] . drawnby cows, makes a shallow drill instead of turn-ing a furrow. He reaps with a sickle, instead ofusing a self-binder, and as for the threshing, itis about the same process that Ruth saw at thethreshing-floor of Boaz in the valley of Bethle-hem. We hear rumors of railroad building inSyria (those Western conveniences must comesome day), but now, instead of the noisy clangof engines and cars, the produce of the landswings quietly along the rough roads to the sea-board. Camels and mules and donkeys formthe freight-trains of the East. But let us turn to more literary su
. St. Nicholas [serial] . drawnby cows, makes a shallow drill instead of turn-ing a furrow. He reaps with a sickle, instead ofusing a self-binder, and as for the threshing, itis about the same process that Ruth saw at thethreshing-floor of Boaz in the valley of Bethle-hem. We hear rumors of railroad building inSyria (those Western conveniences must comesome day), but now, instead of the noisy clangof engines and cars, the produce of the landswings quietly along the rough roads to the sea-board. Camels and mules and donkeys formthe freight-trains of the East. But let us turn to more literary subjects and in-quire into the profession of the public natives of Syria use Arabic, and in ordi-nary speaking make use of words and phrasesfamiliar to all classes. The language, as writ-ten, deals with the more formal, literary words, of which the common people often know noth-ing. Hence the language may be regarded ascomposed of two dialects, more or less distinct— spoken Arabic and written Arabic. The.
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