THEIR WORDS STUCK.
When Mark Twain was in Egyptbe one day arranged with a friend to meet him at one o_ the pyramid* The latter engaged two old but c*» perienced Arabs to guide him to thi place. He afterwards complain 6* that, although he had some kno^ ta ledge of their native language, hP could not understand anything that his guides'had said to him. "Yon should have hired yotinge* men," Mr Clemens told him. "Tkes. toothless old fellows talk only ff«S| Arabic."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 242, 11 October 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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83THEIR WORDS STUCK. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 242, 11 October 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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