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so irritated the monarch that he ordered her to 

 be trampled under the feet of his dromedary, 

 and so, "made an end of her." Poor Azadeh ! 

 She was in her humanity much in advance of 

 her time. One can hardly help the reflection, 

 however, that the status of husband is not 

 what it used to be. Compare the position of 

 the twentieth century benedick, hard put to it 

 to squash his wife with dialectics and arguments, 

 with that of one who could employ his dromedary 

 to the same end ! Still, Bahram's action was 

 certainly hasty. 



Gazelle are still found in Persia, wild as the 

 proverbial hawk, on plains flat as the sea and 

 almost like the sea in extent : not in numerous 

 or big herds, but in little isolated parties with 

 many a weary mile between each. So that let 

 alone turning bucks into does and does into bucks, 

 it is not easy to get a shot at one at all. 



The Persians have three methods of shooting 

 gazelle by night over water, a way that has 

 nothing to recommend it to the sportsman ; the 

 almost equally unsporting way adopted by the 

 nobility of the country of rounding them up with 

 half a regiment of horsemen and blazing into them 

 with scatter guns ; and ahu-gardani. 



Putting it at its simplest, the word (literally 

 gazelle-turning) means lying behind cover while 



