Peasant life in the Holy Land . village be imminent, all the villagerswill be upon the roofs (see Isa. xxii. 1), whichcommand a much better prospect of what is goingon than can be obtained in the narrow, crookedlanes; and I have known of more than onetreacherous murder, and attempted murder, wherethe murderer has, from the house-top, thrown aheavy stone on the skull of his unsuspecting victimpassing below. When an announcement whichconcerns the village generally has to be made, oneof the elders mounts to an elevated roof, and, intones which can be heard all over the place, tellshis news or iss
Peasant life in the Holy Land . village be imminent, all the villagerswill be upon the roofs (see Isa. xxii. 1), whichcommand a much better prospect of what is goingon than can be obtained in the narrow, crookedlanes; and I have known of more than onetreacherous murder, and attempted murder, wherethe murderer has, from the house-top, thrown aheavy stone on the skull of his unsuspecting victimpassing below. When an announcement whichconcerns the village generally has to be made, oneof the elders mounts to an elevated roof, and, intones which can be heard all over the place, tellshis news or issues his orders (St. Matt. x. 27).* In the case which has been already mentioned, * The following is the formula with which the announce-ment is made: O thou that hearest the voice pray in thename of Mohammed—(or of Christ, if it be a Christianvillage). If there are both Christians and Moslems, the criersays : Let the Moslem pray in the name of his Prophet, andthe Nazarene in the name of his Friend, the matter is suchand SHEPHERD AND SHEEP.
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