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Lost ia Palestine-—U’e had an interesting experience mar the ancient Shiloh. Wc were inisdtrcctt I by < ,m-' lying ’belsln'cn, wh<> cared more-t- 1 get baksheVh’ than they did to be accommodating, and found o:;r----aelve* at last on a lonely mountain top without a sicn of a path.' After !-aling -mr horses down a desolate goroe we found a man attending a dock of goats. He p-unf-d ojt the direction we ought to take in -,rd"r to find our path, hut refused to att- r. i ns. Al last he consented to go on condition that wc would pav him in advance. This bclti* rfused, he inquired bow he could be « : ,£. he would bo paid when he arrived at the path. The doctor happily thought of th" prov- . oial phrase, and exclaimed, •• Bi kelamet Kranzi" (by the word of a Frank.) Tim fell v ; .111 d aaif by magic and strode old in the light ditection. I hare often hear t of th- r v t«ee the natives of this country have f--r ! ■: ■ word of a Frank or an Kiirop---.ui. bn* ] hj ,l ex pect®d that before this tinv- th-* il.r.-i-.K iAfttftll Franks vc houest W"g'.«l pav j dbpelled,

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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2070, 20 May 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

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Untitled Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2070, 20 May 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Untitled Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2070, 20 May 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)