Darkness and daybreak; personal experiences, manners, customs, habits, religious and social life in Persia . ^ pictures a scene in which the executioner,posed in a theatrical attitude, swing-s aloft a g-litteringscimetar, and with one well-directed blow strikes offthe victims head. In Persia today one finds that sortof thing- only in picture-books imported from the -06- I -Sr. c t< :n ^^ V

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