The innocents abroad; . a weary land. ^Nothing in the Bible is more beautifulthan that, and surely there is no place we have wandered tothat is able to give it such touching expression as this blister-ing, naked, treeless land. Here you do not stop just when you please, but when you can. We found water, but noshade. We traveled on and founda tree at last, but no water. Werested and lunched, and came onto this place, Ain Mellahah (theboys call it Baldwinsville.) Itwas a very short days run, butthe dragoman does not want togo further, and has invented gplausible lie about the countrybeyond this
The innocents abroad; . a weary land. ^Nothing in the Bible is more beautifulthan that, and surely there is no place we have wandered tothat is able to give it such touching expression as this blister-ing, naked, treeless land. Here you do not stop just when you please, but when you can. We found water, but noshade. We traveled on and founda tree at last, but no water. Werested and lunched, and came onto this place, Ain Mellahah (theboys call it Baldwinsville.) Itwas a very short days run, butthe dragoman does not want togo further, and has invented gplausible lie about the countrybeyond this being infested by fe-rocious Arabs, who would make»sleeping in their midst a danger-ous pastime. Well, they oughtto be dangerous. They carry arusty old weather-beaten flint-lock gun, with a barrel that isit has no sights on it; it will notcarry farther than a brickbat, and is not half so certain. Andthe great sash they wear in many a fold around their waistshas two or three absurd old horse-pistols in it that are rusty. DANGEROUS ARAB. longer than themselves MK. grimes bedouins. 483 from eternal disuse—weapons that would hang fire just aboutlong enough for you to walk out of range, and then burst andblow the Arabs head off. Exceedingly dangerous these sonsof the desert are. It used to make my blood run cold to read Wm. C. Grimeshairbreadth escapes from Bedouins, but I think I could readthem now without a tremor. He never said he was attackedby Bedouins, I believe, or was ever treated uncivilly, but thenin about every other chapter he discovered them approaching,any how, and he had a blood-curdling fashion of working upthe peril; and of wondering how his relations far away wouldfeel could they see their poor wandering boy, with his wearyfeet and his dim eyes, in such fearful danger; and of thinkingfor the last time of the old homestead, and the dear old church,and the cow, and those things ; and of finally straightening his
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