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days of the week, their patients, not themselves, are re- 

 sponsible for all results. The Turkish bath, is, however, 

 the usual sanitary method ; a steamy, joint-cracking, happy 

 operation, not unlike the boiling, peeling process of pota- 

 toes in a pot, but landing the recipient of hydropathic 

 favors in a heaven of delicious poetry and flowers, where 

 he must exclaim with every son of Islam, " Water is 

 indeed Great Allah's gift." 



The camel is found to belie all school geographies and 

 works on natural history, by exhibiting the most growling 

 snarling nature possible, but a ride upon his humps proves 

 swift and joyous as upon the wings of wind. 



Mr. Twombly gave some amusing instances of the gul- 

 libility of the Orientals, as illustrated by their reception 

 of such stories as the rabbis tell of Og, the King of 

 Bashan, whose shin bone was higher than a palm tree and 

 out of whose molars Abraham made a bed for his own 

 accommodations ! The tomb of Jonah also they confi- 

 dently believe to be upon the spot where he once more saw 

 light, when the dyspetic whale disgorged him as too indi- 

 gestible for the ordinary stomach of the catodontidse. 



Arab education makes these stories more digestible 

 mentally than the prophet physically, for on visiting a 

 school and throwing some piasters among the attentive 

 pupils, all the arrangements of the school were thoroughly 

 disturbed except the school master, who offered the self- 

 constituted committee his dirty pipe, and thought his 

 scholars had obtained a new idea. 



* It was apparent also that the gentle Moab- 



itess (of whom Hood has written such a sweet sonnet) 

 would not recognize the mothers of these boys as in the 

 same sense her people, as was Israel of former days, much 

 less would their God be her God, since all they seem to 

 think of is the coins in their hair, the pipes that coil their 



