Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-15

A Cairo correspondent OF the London
Daily News narrates the following: II
lately witnessed iu an inconceivably
frogzy street, Of q narrowness which
rendered the presence of q camel in it
at all the most puzzling pleasantly i'm
aginable-for the way was one in which
any European cat endowed With the least
instinct Of self-preservation would GER
tainly object to be swung in, for obvious
reasons-one Of these contests between
ship Of the desert and that apparently
stranded vessels guide, philosopher and
friend. The latter had heaped up an
armful or 30 of green meat more than
met the formers views on an already
respectable collection of vegetable sub.
stance, which magni6ed the naturally
excrescent aspect Of the csmel's back
into the seeming of an animated stack.
Crouching, he had pulled himself close
together to see out the Inconvenience
resulting from his determination. not to
carry away that extra armful or two Of
green's, and barring an occasional wag OF
bis whole skin-l cannot describe the
phenomenon otherWise-and q cynical
writhe Of his spoDgy nose, he might for
all movement on his part, have been
ehiselled out Of stohe. Around this i'm.
pregnAble stole was cspering, in sort Of
distracted hornpipe, his Arab owner or
lessee, in yellow rage, each successive
paroxysm of which expressed itself in
q frenzy Of double shufiles. BE was also
hosting up parole after parole Of curses
from the remoter depths Of his dia.
phragm, with q produotiveness in that
direction which would have done honor
10 skilled disciple of Signor Lamperti' 8
vruesome method, and punotuating each
malediction with furious thwack on the
camel herd, hard hide, manifestly put
ting into every thump the whole of what.
ever heart may beat his dusky bosom.
Meanwhile the senhent drum upon which
the ipfuristed Ishmaelite thus unmerci-
fully beat his devil tattoo made no sign,
till he had received about sixty or seventy
blows, exeepttbe aforementioned scorn.
ful nose-wrinkling, with which he, as it
were, checked of and took tally Of the
wrongs inflicted upon him. Suddenly
| his eye, which had followed the Arab
steadily through all his insenFate gyrA-
tions, twinkled. He thought he had his
chance. The Arabs legs we're an inch
or two nearer his victim s body than they
had hitherto been, when out lashed the
long neck and clash went the formida'
lble jawsi He just missed bis tormen-
tors tihis, in virtue Of an enormous
skip which the Arab executed simultan'
eously With the csmels EFFORT but il was
lIa great 10y to observe with what iutensl'
fed wrath aud perfect oneness Olpurpose
he went for the most vulnerable point
OF bis prosecutors person. Many more
thumpH avenged bis sborliye snapl bal
he took no more notice 10 them than i
they had been so many happings Of &
butterAys wing. Presently the Arab
fairly tired ont, and having presumably
exhausted the abusive resources Of hiI
native tongue, sat down and spat freely
round him. minute or two, after whicl
I be took Of the thEeO or four pounds over
weight, Whereupon the eSpel rose Will
| tbe utmost promptitpde, and stepped Of
| Id that gingerly nepner which is 50 Ia
dicrousiy out OF keeping With the 6gurt
aud Statures0t such creatures, steerinG
bis way down d street. which almost &C
eurately Etted him, as easily as II it baC
bseH 9 broad boulevard. he bad BIZ
own way, aud be apparently bore NJ
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