Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-12-26

rather proud Of them. I'd got some
on the floor Of my rooms at Cam
bridge, and the art people and the
furniture cranks who came to sec me
went into ecstacies over the colortng.
Also there's camel's hair cloth under
meath. But q woman's douar IL by no
means as hot as you'd think. Indeed.
In war times we put our wounded into
them to keep the poor fellows away
from the heat" nE., ..
There seems to be very large
ESCORT said Sir George. rather
thoughtfully. considering that you
said the country was perfectly quiet"
Sidi Bergash laughed. 81 suppose
you on your part would describe Lon
don as perfectly quiet. yet when your
king and queen so about they not in
frequently have quite small army
Gathering along at the heels OF their
chariot. I'm sorry | don't impress you
as anybody ont OF the ordinary
Chesterman, but really when am at
home, I am, a genuine spotentate, and
my mothers real queen. To be
quite frank with you, ceremonial
bores me, but my mother likes it. She
was brought up to It, and you see. My
poor old dad was a great stickler' for
that sort of pageant and etiquette. l
believe to be historical, we got it from
the vandals In the early. middle ages,
when our people hired themselves out
as mercenaries to help in the mid.
European war; and, II you come to
think Of 1.-THE modern Germans who,
suppose are the Nandals' llneal
descendants. are just as keen on pomp
and circumstance today"
Il was only wondering how we are
going to find room for them all.
We're a bit cramped here. you know.
on this little tub
ooh, you needn't worry about put
ting up all the encourage. They'll
form camp, as you'll presently see, on
the shore. and should think, when, 1t
comes to the point, my mother will
prefer to sleep there, too. She talked
very big. poor dear, about her keen
desire to accent your invitation to
N'zaranee ship. but i expect when she
really tries it she'll detect wobble
even on this smooth lagoon. 7 be.
lieve some Of our people did once hire
out as rowers to a Phoenician galley
and pick lip a certain amount OF sea.
manship there: but that's quite long
time ago now. and since then we seem
to have stuck pretty we'll to terra
f1rma. and have worse nautical insides
than Frenchman. There's just one
more thing" "<
We'll. go ahead man" ~..- 49,
':You see the state religion is Mo-
hammedism, and it's part OF the game
that our women go yelled. think 1t
rot myself, but you can't get over the
prejudice Of centuries. with the
prophet at the back of it as closing
retort to all possible arguments,
!; especially as the old gentleman is
counted as direct ancestor. Besides,
as I've told you. my mother is rather
old-fashioned In her ideas. and I'm
afraid she looks upon my more mod.
ern European Views as merely scanda.
ious." ,~ ~. u ~. 8 i-E
"Oh. we quite expected your mother
would come veiled," said Violet. land
got the captain to give me; a. big
state room that opens, of the engine
room alley-way, and which up to now
they've used for stores. He's had what
cases were left sent down to the hold
and the stewardess and have lodged
1t up into really pretty little sitting
room. At night we can rig the berths
II your mother comes to stay on
the zenana, II that's the word. The
only thing I'm troubled about is the
cooking. Will she like our food?"
mot In the least. But that need not
disturb you, She brings her own food
say, Chesterman. you might tell your
! skipper to hold on with that boat he's
trying to send away. They'll be
! awfully mad IT, you 60 among them
before everything Is ready, and car
. tell you these elaborate ceremonial
camps take quite . bit Of time to
pitch" > -, ,'.,.s-s 7, se ~
Ashore on the dazzling beach the
/; leading camel had halted, shut him
self up in sections like four.joinr
j two-foot rule, and discharged his white
draped rider. The other camels q!
they .strolled up swung out OF linz
abeam, and also came to moorings
and the escort, pulling farther rount
to the north, dismounted, drove II
their picket pins, and soon had theil
horses straddled out to: impossible
spans by well.stretched heel ropes
The diamond hitch. which the west
ern packer. fondly imagines to be hi:
own invention, was patented probably
by, the camel driver Of Mecca. and an,
way is In current use In the Sahart
today for making fast load on tina
most uneasy OF all baggage animals.
| Drivers and escort jumped to thu
loads, threw on the lashings. ant
opened bales. Tent poles we're lait
out on level stretches OF the sand al
unexpected angles. camels hair clott
was laid over these, and then mer
lifted, and thrust, and pulled ant
there was the black tent. shaped like
dozen big ,beehives running into one
another, Of the sealed pattern that thu
! Berber, and the Bedouin, and thu
Twareg have used since the beginning
OF time. -.
J Carpets were spread. and a. gaud,
red flag, lettered in Arabic, run ul
on pole. Other carpets were strung
UP to divide the tent of into chambers
and to hide the crudities Of the wall
and divan was set In place ant
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