The Burton Holmes lectures; . A CROWD OF MENDICANTS who has changed rags with a fellowpauper, and has complacently applied for a second dose ofgovernmental generosity. Utter poverty and black miseryare depicted upon the rags and visages of the expectantthrong — even the babies wear oldish, knowing expressionson their little faces. A strange feature is the curious littlepigtail worn by the boys, — a pigtail growing all awry, sprout-ing, not from the crown, but from one side of the pigtail is an agent of salvation ; on it depends the 28 INTO MOROCCO hope of heaven;for we are toldthat at
The Burton Holmes lectures; . A CROWD OF MENDICANTS who has changed rags with a fellowpauper, and has complacently applied for a second dose ofgovernmental generosity. Utter poverty and black miseryare depicted upon the rags and visages of the expectantthrong — even the babies wear oldish, knowing expressionson their little faces. A strange feature is the curious littlepigtail worn by the boys, — a pigtail growing all awry, sprout-ing, not from the crown, but from one side of the pigtail is an agent of salvation ; on it depends the 28 INTO MOROCCO hope of heaven;for we are toldthat at the dayof j u (1 j^ in e 11 tAllah is to liltthe r i ^Mi t e o u sfaithful by theirpigtails intoparadise. Apro-pos of this state-ment and otherstatements heardin the course of. FKNNIKS FOR THE POOR our journey, itmay be well to cjuote an Arab maxim: Never believe allyou hear; for he who believes all he hears often will believethat which is not. Another maxim from the same sourcecontains excellent advice for the traveler, and much comfortfor the lazy: Do not do all that you can; for he who doesall he can, often will do that which he should not. Anotheris a pearl of great price to the returned traveler especially: Do not say all you know; for he who sa\s all he knowsoften will say that which he knows not. There is yet afourth gem of Arabian wisdom with a similar setting: Do not spend all }ou have; forhe who spends all he hath,often will spend that whichhe hath not. The arrival in Tangier is unlike that in any other city in the world. Every native face is a type, every group a Ai UK picture. We begin to (.ovERNMENTAi. Jove the dirt, the smells GKNEROSnV
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