Peasant life in the Holy Land . s at close quarters, if not actuallyhand-to-hand. The slings are made of coarsewoollen string, with a sort of bag in the centre tohold the stone. The boys also make little bird-traps of one ortwo twigs and a piece of string. They are baitedwith a berry, or some other food, and just laid on theground in the haunts of the birds. With the sameobject they make limed twigs from mulberry andother trees by heating the young shoots over a fire. Gambling is strictly forbidden to IMoslems, and islooked upon by all classes and creeds as very wrong,and any game which is in
Peasant life in the Holy Land . s at close quarters, if not actuallyhand-to-hand. The slings are made of coarsewoollen string, with a sort of bag in the centre tohold the stone. The boys also make little bird-traps of one ortwo twigs and a piece of string. They are baitedwith a berry, or some other food, and just laid on theground in the haunts of the birds. With the sameobject they make limed twigs from mulberry andother trees by heating the young shoots over a fire. Gambling is strictly forbidden to IMoslems, and islooked upon by all classes and creeds as very wrong,and any game which is in any way associated withthat vice is entirely avoided by respectable people. Education is making great strides among the * This game is spread widely throughout the East. AtZanzibar, and along the eastern coast of Africa, where it isknown by the name of Boo, it is much played; while inUganda, where it has probably been introduced by the Arabtraders, and is called Miceso, I have seen the natives spendhours over it at one S. oo «< i5<! t-t EDUCATION 99 peasantry. The late Bishop Gobat, on his appoint-ment to theEnghsh bishopric in Jerusalem in 1849,found that there were practically no schools at allfor the Arabic-speaking population, and the meanswhich he then took to supply the deficiency havebeen the origin of all the educational work nowbeing carried on, as they aroused, first the OrientalChurches, and then the Turkisli Government, toprovide schools for the different sections of thecommunity. Now, throughout the villages andhamlets, schools have been opened in all but the\ ery small places, and teachers appointed, in thecase of the Christians by the various Churches towhich they belong, and in the case of the Moslemsby the Ottoman Government. In the latter afairly strict watch is now kept on the attendance ofthe boys, the parents being fined if the children arenot regular. For the girls, however, there is littleor no provision apart from the mission
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