. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . r to taper,from hand to hand. One taper became ten ; ten, a hundred; a hun-dred, a thousand. Then thousands upon thousands of lights filledevery part of the church. The church was a wall of fire. The airwas suffocating. The flames spread, — into the court, into the streets, :into the houses. Jerusalem blazed. The city was a sea of fire, kin-dled, it was believed, by the torch of an angel or the hand of God. The bishop in the Chapel of Angels, who alone has witness
. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . r to taper,from hand to hand. One taper became ten ; ten, a hundred; a hun-dred, a thousand. Then thousands upon thousands of lights filledevery part of the church. The church was a wall of fire. The airwas suffocating. The flames spread, — into the court, into the streets, :into the houses. Jerusalem blazed. The city was a sea of fire, kin-dled, it was believed, by the torch of an angel or the hand of God. The bishop in the Chapel of Angels, who alone has witnessed the ,stupendous miracle, faints. Priests bear him out. It ought to makeany bishop faint, in reality, to take such a weight of guilt upon hissoul. Our tourists found good quarters, for the East, in the MediterraneanHotel. After long visits to the holy places, Ali Bedair would enter- ,tain them with romantic tales of the Hebrew race. Some of these were quite Arabian in their colorings; for the old interpreter, like all ,Orientals, loved a royally embellished story. His favorite hero was iKino: Solomon. 77r^-:::::^\i \. COMING TO SEE THE MIRACLE. THE JOY OF THE WHOLE EARTH. 2I THE WONDERFUL TRAVELS OF KING SOLOMON. * King Solomon had under his command an army of genii, or jinns, — spiritsof the air, — who were ready to execute whatever he wished or commanded. While his palace was building he determined to visit the ancient city ofDamascus, and summoned a jinn to carry him thither in his invisible he was thus journeying through the air, he came to the valley of ants, andwas greatly astonished at the sight of the ants habitations. The ants them-selves were as big as wolves, and countless as to number; and their dwellino--places stretched farther than the eye could see. He commanded the jinn to stop in the valley, and he there went to thequeen of the ants and took her into his arms. I am greater than thou, said the queen. How } asked Solomon, in surprise. Thy th
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