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VIII. Ahu=Gardani (continued). 



" The wild gazelle on Judah'g hills 



Exulting yet may bound, 

 And drink from all the living rills 



That gush on holy ground. 

 Its airy step, its glorious eye, 

 May glance in tameless transports by." 



ACCURACY, I fear, has had to give way to 

 exigencies of rhyme. If, as I imagine, the Dorcas 

 inhabits the same kind of ground as our gazelles 

 of Persia, the words " rills " and " hills " might 

 both be deleted, though I am at a loss to suggest 

 substitutes. Something has already been said 

 about the watering habits of gazelle. As to the 

 1 'hills," these animals generally affect plains of 

 the type that Persians call " palm-of-the-hand," 

 so flat that, according to native hunters, the 

 right thing for the shikari to do is to take off 

 his shoes, and, propping them up, take cover 

 behind them. A better plan for the " Faranghi," 

 whose shoes do not come off so easily, is to carry 

 a bunch of camel-thorn, which can be anchored 



