IMS THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. 



' or a pacha. The women and children will no 



* longer bring thee the camel's milk, or barley or 

 ' doura in their palms. Thou wilt no more course 



* the desert like the wind from Egypt. No more 

 1 \\ilt thou divide with thy chest the refreshing 

 ' waves of Jordan. O that if 1 remain a slave, I 

 ' could render thee at least free. Let me try ! There 



* go! Return to our tents, tell my wife that Abon 

 ' el Masseh returns to it no more, and lick the 



* hands of my four children/ 



' Thus speaking, Abon had gnawed with his teeth 



* the goat's hair which had served to fasten the 

 ' Arab horses, and the animal became free; but 



* seeing his master manacled and bound at its feet, 

 ' the faithful and intelligent creature was taught 

 ' by instinct, what no language could have told it. 

 4 He bent his head, seized his master, and taken 



* him up by his teeth by the leathern girdle round 

 ' his body, set off in a gallop, and carried him to 



* his tent. Arriving there, and throwing his master 

 4 on the sand, at the feet of his wife, and children, 

 ' the horse expired from fatigue." 1 



' The whole tribe wept his loss poets sang his 

 ' merits, and his name is constantly in the mouths 

 ' of the Arabs who inhabit the country about Jerico. 



* We have ourselves no idea of the degree of 



* attachment and intelligence, which the habit of 

 ' living with the family, of being caressed by the 



