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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 183, 4 August 1919, Page 11

To i>he stranger the Afghan displays a sort of specious and deceptive Oriental courtesy. In fact a national proverb is that "the man who shuts his door to a stranger is no Afghan." But the stranger also would do well to know a. saying current among the Hindus, "God shield you from the vengeance of ifche elephant, the cobra and the Afghan." For many strangers have found that upon provocation, to which the Afghan is extremely sensitive, iris disposition is vengeful, cruel and crafty. His desire for pillage, theft, and deception also is apt to get the best of him. The Afghan is a swarthy, swaggering, proud, but "withal prepossessing sort of man, every inch the warrior, while he keeps hie turban on, but giving a faint suggestion of a benigged jurist of old English days <vrhen «« removes it to disclose a head shaved from forehead .to crown, with curly ringlets falling about his shoulders from, the unshared portions.

Parents! Think of 10 per ceni, reduction for a few more days on Xew Zealand neavj- tweed overcoats. —Geo. Fowlds, Ltd—(Ad.)

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