The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1908-05-28
RlS FlODLE-EEADED PONY ANSWERED THE CALL,
BY R. 3. Cunningham Graham.
IOHOI

The little holes which scanned his
rugged Berber face had given him the
title Of the Father Of Smallpox, which
he-after the fashion Of his country
men, who take ALL rain, wind. sun,
good and bad fortune, wounds, prison,
mutllation, even death itself. as being
actual and direct manifestations of the
VIII Divine-had cheerfully accepted,
and bore as uncomplainingly as he
had born the illness. from which he
took his name.
Half pagan, half Mohammedan, after
the fashion OF the race from which
most likely sprang St. Augustine, al
though he thought himself firm be-
never, Blu Gidri was employed as SOL
der in the British consulate at Fee
Dressed in the Arab clothes which rare
" suit Rerber, for the two races are
as distinct as are the English and the
French, be strove, though mean Of
stature and appearance, to look
swaggerer, and had grown the two
long locks on either temple which are
the outward visible sign Of the official
Of the court. His pointed fez and
sword cooked up behind in the Arab
style gave him an air as Of monkey
on a barrel organ. Such was his out
ward m.en but those who knew him
knew that he was brave stanch, obsti-
nate as a mule, and one Of those able
to knock a nail into a plank by beating
on Il with his forehead. and then, II
the necessity arose. to draw 1t with
his teeth
Withal, BIZ Gidri was an honest and
conscientious man. one that no gold
could buy. thing unknown among
the Arabs, with whom key Of gold
opens all locks. siow-witted, but te-
naeious OF ideas when once they nj
tered through his skull into his brain,
those who employed him knew him Tor
q man to send upon a desperate errand
should the necessity arise, certain that
he would reach the place TO which they
sent him, or die upon the quest.
one Closed Door.
Though, as a MussulmRn. one por-
ton Of his lie was shut from all man
kind, as with all Of the Arabs, with
whom frank exterior serves as a star
tight bulkhead between them and the
world. At times. when asked about
'his house"-the formula employed BY
Mussulmana when asking after one an
others families-he would launch into
details and say that "sheT was well,
and than, pull himself up and staDmer
and drift OF into praises Of his little
boy, who be averred. with the innor
cent faulty OF fathers, Mussulman and
Christian alike, was wonder
10 the outward eye, the marvel was
dirty little boy In torn yellow
shirt. barsfooted and black-eyed, and
with little. close-shaved bullet-head'
on which you could have struck
match had it not here and thore been
spotted with white eruption nou-
eeous to behold.
But, Tor his reticence about his iam-
lily affairs be quite made up oy ms
garrulity about q certain little pacing
pony that he bad bought In the AIT
Yusi country. and which he sWore
could 10 from Fez to Tangier 40 three
days. ana that 50 smoothly that ne
could carry Ia lis band glass 81 wa
ter and never spill a drop. rms
equine naraoon was coW-Eocked and
hddle-headcd beast Of a light cream
color With black points and had az
eye hloodshot and danserous-looklng
which did not rs the least belle ? rs
teurcf Tor 81 abroach him was 10 cN-