COURTESIES OF THE ROAD.
A street ‘ block ’ of traffic wears, near Nazareth of Galilee, a somewhat more dramatic face than among us. Enter the city on a feast day and you will find the mountain track ciowded with donkeys, mules, and camels laden with all sorts of produce. It is all picturesque, says the author of the descriptive * In Scripture Lands,’ but it is not uniformly peaceable. It a luckless donkey grazes .the ribs ot a cimel, the respective owners of the beasts begin at once a duel of words. Watching his opportunity, the donkey lies down for a roll in the dusr, and the camel, drawing up his great joints to his body, squats regardlessly in the way of all comers. A crowd then gathers, and the track is sron barricaded. The scene grows interesting, and some fine specimens of modern Arabic are scattered to the winds.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XIII, 28 September 1895, Page 404
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148COURTESIES OF THE ROAD. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XV, Issue XIII, 28 September 1895, Page 404
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