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functionary. "Bow, wow, wow," or something like 

 it, uttered by our Mahometan friend, made us look up, 

 and we saw him unaccepting and unsmiling. " Why, 

 thou greedy varlet ! " (friend, the words were innocu- 

 ous, because unintelligible), " 'tis by so much exactly 

 too much for thee." 



It is an amusing thing to have a dispute where 

 words will not second energy. Such a scene have I 

 noted more than once, as a fine pyschological demon- 

 stration. You abuse a guide or a donkey-driver in a 

 language he does not understand, for disobeying direc- 

 tions that he did not understand, word or particle. 

 The whole thing is absurd, and as a man of sense you 

 ought to be philosophical. But when I have noted 

 you in such case, and seen that you do not lose 

 your temper, nor abuse the offender in round Eng- 

 lish, I will set you down as of placid temperament. 

 Mahmoud growled, and looked as if he would fain 

 have resumed the paper or abducted the horses : and 

 thus it was with the interchange of such pleasantries, 

 and followed by his good wishes, that we started. 



" Bravo," said K ; " we start with a row, we 



shall be all right presently." 



And now stoop well your head and keep your 

 eyes open as you turn the corner into the Armenian 

 quarter. These houses, that make such beautiful 

 streets, are ticklish things to ride by. They all pro- 

 ject forward, having the upper storey supported by a 

 kind of flying buttress. These are at no great height 



