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Fox* Horses and Ca 
The Arab guides helped me easily m their 
well-known way. One or two carried the can¬ 
dles, and all joined in a sort of a song at which 
1 could not help laughing, in spite, of both awe 
and lack of breath. It seemed to be a chant, of 
mingled Arabic and English (a language they all 
spoke after a Cushion,) the English words being 
apparently a continual repetition : 
Vera goot lady, backshish, backshish; 
Vera goot Indy, give us backshish; 
nud so on, fa capo. Twice we had to rest on our 
way, from sheer exhaustion, and on one occa¬ 
sion, where there is a break In the continuity ol 
the passage, there was an ascent into a hole high 
up in the wall, by no means easy to accomplish. 
At last, after what seemed an hour, and I sup¬ 
pose was about fifteen minutes, since we left the 
sunshine, we stood in Cheops’ burial vault, the 
center chamber of' the Great .Pyramid. As my 
readers know, it is a small oblong chamber, of 
course wholly without light or ventilation, with 
plain stone floor, with roofs, and with the huge 
stone sarcophagus (which once held the mummy 
of Cheops, but is now perfectly empty) standing 
The Interest of the spot would 
unpleasant one, whom you particularly wish 
neither to follow nor seem to follow, it is in¬ 
evitably that particular objectionable person 
whose mule your mule will go after, and press 
past every one else to get at, and drag your arm 
out of its socket if you try to turn it back, and 
finally make you wish that an avalanche would 
fall and bury you and the demon-brute you have 
got under you, in the abyss forever. On horse¬ 
back you are a lord (or lady) of creation, with 
the lower animal subject unto you. On mule- 
back, yon arc a bale of goods, borue with con¬ 
tumely at the will of the vilest of beasts —not 
where you please, but wberf, where, and how 
it pleases. 
To return to iny expedition to the Pyramids. 
Very soon the English party were out of sight, 
and slowly and wearily I was led a zig-zag course 
through fields of young growing corn, and palm 
groves, and past the poor mud villages of the 
Fellah-Arabs. Mud, indeed, occupies in Egypt 
an amazing prominence in every view. Mud 
hovels, mud fields, where the rank vegetation is 
only beginning to spring through the deposit of 
the inundation, mud dams across a thousand 
ditches, and finally the vast yellow mud-banks 
of the mighty Nile. If man were first created 
in Egypt, it is small marvel that his bodily force 
should be a “ muddy vesture of decay.” in the 
course of my pilgrimage on this particular day 
DRIVING HOME THE COWE 
Oct of the clover and blue-eyed grass 
He turned them into the river-lane; 
One after another he let theta pass, 
Then fastened the meadow bars again. 
Under the willows, and over the hill, 
He patiently followed their sober pace; 
The merry whistle for once was still, 
And something shadowed the sunny face. 
Only a hoy 1 and his father had said 
He never could let his youngest go; 
Two already were lying dead 
Under the feet of the trampling foe. 
But after the evening work was done, 
And the frogs were loud in the meadow swamp, 
Over his shoulder he siting hi* gun 
And stealthily followed the foot-path damp. 
Across the clover and through the wheat 
With resolute heart and purpose grim, 
Though cold was the dew on Ids hurrying feet, 
And the blind bat* Hitting startled him. 
Thrice since then bad the lanes been white, 
And the. orchards sweet with apple bloom; 
And now when the cows came back at night, 
The feeble, father drove them home. 
For news had come to the lonely farm 
That three were lying where two had lain; 
And the old man’s tremulous, palsied arm 
Could never lean on a son’B again, 
The summer day grew cold and late, 
He went for the cows when the work was done; 
But down the lane, as he opened the gate, 
He saw them coming one by one; 
Brindle, Ebony, Speckle, und Bess, 
Shaking their boms in the evening wind; 
Cropping the butter-cups out of the grass— 
But who was it followed close behind ? 
Loosely swung in the idle air 
The empty sleeve of army blue; 
And worn and pale, from the crisping hair, 
Looked out a face that the father knew. 
For Southern prisons will sometimes yawn 
And yield their dead unto life again; 
And the day that comes with a cloudy dnwn 
In golden glory at laBt may wane. 
The great tears sprang to their melting eyes; 
For the heart must speak when lips are dumb, 
And under the silent evening skies 
Together they followed the cattle home. 
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alone have repaid a journey from England; but 
I was left small time to enjoy it. Suddenly 1 
was startled to observe that my guides had 
stopped their song and changed their obsequious 
voices, and were all five standing bolt upright 
against the walls of the vault. 
“It Is the custom,” said one of them, “for 
whoever comes here to give us backshish.'’ 
I reflected in a moment that they had seen me 
foolishly transfer my purse from the pocket of 
my riding skirt to the walking dress I wore 
under it, and which I had alone retained on en¬ 
tering the Pyramid. 
“Well,” 1 said, as coolly aa I was able, “I 
intend, of course, to give you ‘backshish’ for 
your trouble, and if you choose to be paid here 
instead of at the door, it is all the same to me. 
I shall give three shillings, English, (a favorite 
coin in Cairo,) as I said I only wanted three men.” 
“Three, shillings are not enough. We want 
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stage in the world may parallel for strangeness j 
and splendor. One day spent in roaming aim- ] 
lessly through the bazaars, and the gardens, and 
the mosques of Ilassan and the Gama Tayloon, , 
docs more to reveal to us what Eastern life ; 
means—what is the back-ground of each great 
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journey to Egypt mainly with the thought of the 
attractions of the ruins of Thebes and Memphis, 
Karnack and Phi lie, I waited patiently for a fort¬ 
night within sight of the Pyramids without 
attempting to visit them, satisfied with the end¬ 
less interest of the living towu. At last the day 
came when the curiosity of some quarter of a 
century (since that epoch In a child's life, the 
reading of Belzoni) could no longer be deferred. 
I had a concern , as good folks say, to visit the 
Cheops that particular morning, and to Cheops 
I went, mounted on tlie inevitable donkey, and 
accompanied by a choice specimen of that genus 
of scamp, the Cairene donkey-boy. Unluckily 
I had over night ordered my dragoman to wait 
in Cairo for certain expected mails, and bring 
them to me in Old Cairo whenever they might 
arrive; and of course the order involved my loss 
of his services for the entire day, spent by him, 
no doubt, with my letters in his pocket, at a 
coffee shop. Thus it happened that my little 
expedition wanted all guidance or assistance— 
such acquaintances as I possessed in Cairo 
being otherwise occupied on that particular 
morning, and not even knowing of my intention. 
Arriving at the ferry of the Nile, just above 
the Isle of Rhoda, it was with considerable satis¬ 
faction that I found a party of pleasant English 
ladies and gentlemen also proceeding to the 
Pyramids. Their time, however, was limited by 
the departure of the Overland Mail that day, and 
of course they could make no delay—as they 
seemed kindly disposed to do — to keep up 
with me and my wretched donkey, or rather 
donkey-hoy. 
If there he an aggravating incident iu this 
very trying world, it is assuredly that of being 
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with any available whip, stick, spur, or other in¬ 
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a treacherous conductor, who pretends to be¬ 
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place in it. Only one thing is worse, a mule 
which carries you through a w r hole day of weary 
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Come, I’ve 6ccn enough. Let ns go out.” 
“We want backshish!” said all live of the 
villains, in one loud voice. 
It, was a crisis, and I believe if I had wavered a 
moment, I might never have got away; hut the 
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“ I’ll have no more of this. You fellow there, 
take the light aud go out. You give me your 
hand. Come along, all Of you.” 
It was a miracle; to my own comprehension, 
at all events. They one and all suddenly slunk 
down like so many scolded dogs, and without 
another syllable did as I ordered them. The 
slave habit doubtless resumed its usual sway 
with them the moment that one of free race 
asserted a claim of command. Any way, it was 
a simple fact that five Arabs yielded to a single 
Anglo-Saxon woman, who was herself quite as 
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were concluding tueir luuiuvuu *» a * 
Pyramid, und after declining their cordial offers 
to share it, I asked one of the ladies, “ Had she 
visited the interior and Cheops’ chamber ? ” 
“ No. Some of the ladies and gentlemen had 
done so. The Arabs were a w ild set of men, and 
she did not like to put* herself in their power.” 
Deeming the lady’s caution must be over¬ 
developed, and too intensely interested to make 
very serious reflections on what I was doing, I 
engaged the Schcik at the door of the Pyramid 
to provide me with proper guides so soon as the 
English party had ridden away. Five strong 
Fellah-Arabs volunteered lor tbe service, in spite 
of iny remark that three were enough, and we 
were soon plunged into the darkness of the first 
entrance-passage. All the world knows how the 
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But oh, liow different from the keen, pure air, 
the wide horizon, the glittering sunlight, of the 
Alps, this dark, suffocating cavern, where the 
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make an atmosphere scarcely to be breathed, 
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almost paralyze the pulse. Perhaps my special 
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