KIND IF UNCLEAN.
" ELEA-EITTEN " SHEIKS
LONDON, August 14,
'•It is all very well to talk about a labour of love, but love without labour is of little use amongst the Egyptian fellaheen," Mr. Yclia F.rcole, of Grenfell (Xew South Wales), told the special representative of the "Sydney Sun. 1 ' "My host in a remote Egyptian village 'had just dismissed one wife, and taken another love. The first was well enough, but she did not work hard enough. "I slept in what answered for an oldfashioned parlour, into which sheep kept entering. The belief that fleas dislike the company of sheep does not apply to Egypt. Fellaheen and fleas go naturally together. "The peasantry of this mud-built village were quite unspoiled. They were the most kind-hearted and also the dirtiest I visited of the Bisharin Bedouins in the desert beyond Assouan, where I found even the sheiks flea-bitten] and unromantic, but untouched bv commercialism."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 198, 22 August 1930, Page 7
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153KIND IF UNCLEAN. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 198, 22 August 1930, Page 7
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