. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE SNOWBALL WAR — DRIVING THE ENEMY OUT UPON THE ICEAND CAPTURING THE STANDARD. THREE LITTLE STORIES OF JLHEE is a great favoriteof the Syrians, andmany tales are toldof him and his queerdoings. The follow-ing stories are repro-duced as nearly aspossible from theArabic, in whichlanguage I first heard them. The scene of thethree incidents is laid in the little mountainvillage where Jehee had lived all his life. When Jehee was eighteen, he married a verypretty and clever young woman, who took goodcare of the house and did most of the morning, just as Je
. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE SNOWBALL WAR — DRIVING THE ENEMY OUT UPON THE ICEAND CAPTURING THE STANDARD. THREE LITTLE STORIES OF JLHEE is a great favoriteof the Syrians, andmany tales are toldof him and his queerdoings. The follow-ing stories are repro-duced as nearly aspossible from theArabic, in whichlanguage I first heard them. The scene of thethree incidents is laid in the little mountainvillage where Jehee had lived all his life. When Jehee was eighteen, he married a verypretty and clever young woman, who took goodcare of the house and did most of the morning, just as Jehees wife had put a potof lentils on the fire to cook for dinner, Jeheeoverturned a jar of water, so that his wife wasobliged to go to the fountain to refill it. Shetold Jehee to watch the pottage, and when it boiled over to nakiz it (an Arabic word whichmeans either to scare or to stir). Jehee, likea good husband, sat down by the fire to watchthe pot. In a little while it began to boil over, andJehee began to shriek. Finding that the potcontinued to boil over, he hid behind the doorand jumped out at the pot several times. As itsti
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