. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . ne of the ladies, I have read all this book says,and now I am ready for the sights. I ve read mine, said the second. Mine is Baedekers. Whatis yours ? Murrays, said the tliird. Mine is the London Guide Book, said the fourth. We have nt lost any time, have we ? said the first. No! thankfully answered the other three. This is a queer world, said Mr. Leland. Let us go, said Charlie. I am ashamed of our own people;but I wish I could meet that old Jew again. There is s
. Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land . ne of the ladies, I have read all this book says,and now I am ready for the sights. I ve read mine, said the second. Mine is Baedekers. Whatis yours ? Murrays, said the tliird. Mine is the London Guide Book, said the fourth. We have nt lost any time, have we ? said the first. No! thankfully answered the other three. This is a queer world, said Mr. Leland. Let us go, said Charlie. I am ashamed of our own people;but I wish I could meet that old Jew again. There is something Ilike about him, — he interests me, I cannot tell how or why. Heseems like a poet, like a patriarch, like a wise man of an Arabianstory. What is a Talmudist? Mr. Leland was unable to say. The meeting of a Talmudist inLondon was an unexpected episode, and one for which none of theguide-books had made any provision. Do you think that we shall see him again 1 asked Charlie. I do not know. If we do, I am sure that we shall know him. Yes, quite sure, said Mr. Leland, with a smile. I should belikely to know him < < i OLD ALI BEDAIR. 2^ The gray weeks of late November and early December grew cold and dark; and Mr. Leland decided to go South,and spend the January and February of the new year in a brighterand warmer atmosphere. Where? Nice was thought of; Majorca wasdiscussed; Rome, Naples, Amalfi. Then the Levant presented itsvision of grand antiquities. Mr. Leland preferred Nice; but Charliewas eager for a boat or tent journey in the lands of the rising sun, downthe Nile to Thebes, or from Egypt over the track of the Israelites toJerusalem, and thence to Damascus, the most ancient city in theworld. Days were passed in indecision. Charlie became accustomed togreet his father each morning with the question,— Is it the Levant} The lands of the Levant are properly those that lie upon andstretch away from the eastern shores ofthe Mediterranean, t
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