The Desert gateway, Biskra and thereabouts . BENDRISS ON OVERWORK 43 could only put all the fingers and thumb of his righthand together and wave them up and down, sayingBeaucoup! beaucoup! I pretended to be greatly shocked; said he hadnot long been back from his Christmas holiday, andthat it was a scandal that he had so soon got a congeagain. Sir, he replied, with a gravity that was comical,it is bad to work too much. If you do not haveenough holiday—here he shook in every limb inimitation of senile decay—you wall have a palsy ! We parted with the inevitable handshake, bothlaughing heartily. I
The Desert gateway, Biskra and thereabouts . BENDRISS ON OVERWORK 43 could only put all the fingers and thumb of his righthand together and wave them up and down, sayingBeaucoup! beaucoup! I pretended to be greatly shocked; said he hadnot long been back from his Christmas holiday, andthat it was a scandal that he had so soon got a congeagain. Sir, he replied, with a gravity that was comical,it is bad to work too much. If you do not haveenough holiday—here he shook in every limb inimitation of senile decay—you wall have a palsy ! We parted with the inevitable handshake, bothlaughing heartily. I have often wondered since howan Arab boy of fifteen came to know even the nameof a disease which was the result of overwork. Bendriss writes to us sometimes, in good is to go on from the Biskra school to the univer-sity at Constantine, and then he wants to enter theFrench army as an officer of Spahis, a native regi-ment. He is determined to visit London, and asEnglish is taught at the university (we afterwardshad proof of how
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