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UGLY SCARS 



rowel. Others explain the cuts in a different way, but it 

 is a blind matter at best, less explicable even than the 

 white foot business in Syria. The cut on the barrel is a 

 long and semicircular one from below upward, as if made 

 by the heel armed with a vicious spur. Into the cut is 

 rubbed (again they say) powdered glass to make an ugly 



OLD ARAB OF THE SULTAN'S STABLE ON ARABIAN 



scar, much as the German student indulges in unlimited 

 JTneipen to make the cuts received at Pauken heal up 

 slowly and into rough, and therefore much esteemed scars. 

 On a white horse the scar I have described is peculiarly 

 distressing. The other cuts are straight horizontal ones 

 half-way up the buttock and arm. There seems to be 



