New Britain herald., 1921-04-08
long DROPS
| word FROM EGYPT
TELLS About Numbering His Guide
nd Finding a New Britain Herald

|he Editor OF The Evening Herald:
New Britain, Conn.
~ Dear Sir:
Your various communications came
me while I'm Egypt, and as
Eomisod you on my return. i would
We your columns the consensus OF
i y travels as well as n resume OF
IhythinE out of tho ordinary. I take
u typewriter on knee to do so.
4 found Egypt about rs NANCY as
/rr--many foas. dogs and much ia
PIC. 80 that she ta living UP to date
she formerly did I'm the times whom
IN were getting ready To write the
bic, which In, by tho way. n pretty
pd book to shape ones 1ifo 10y, as
US a fine model for us writer's
rhape our literary product by.
visited tho tomb OF Cleopatra, but
BID not lind where Anthony In
ried. though my guide told me
nt he was somewhere I'm Egypt.
bays thought nc went to heaven.
ought. for believe no wasn't
II as bad as Cleo. asked this
pc guide II IL was n fact that Cleo
ra was bit. or bitten by a pretty
rn worm. Yes" he said, and.
kn was looking on her picture
|one of the museums. | could not
u but say to myself, 1T must have
M a pretty green worm to have
en such beautiful creature to
thl"
he Nile still flows on in its yell
oillncss. and to my way OF think
insofar MS scenery Is concerned,
ents TO tho observer nothing of
N beauty than does the Farming
river or tho littlo one on whose
KS tho beautiful city of Hartford
knllt. whose waters will soon give
H. annual. bony contribution ut,
ame. about 60 per pound for roe
soc for bucks.
OF tho greatest surprises ! ever
n my life. was one day early I'm
month OF last December when
on tho desert. and tncidently
camcl's back. My guide was
n dozen yards i'm tho lead. We
thrswing back and forth some
Image I'm his language. having
bred his lingo ia have you to
In two weeks after hitting
M. If remember correctly he
aomethIng about n camel being
hinder" said, "Connecticut's gone
mr. now on water than that" He
hea to discredit my assertion, for
lfrned and shot over his shoulder
pne or / should say. two words
lic!" I said all right and driv-
N spurs deep In my camcl's sides
overlook him. He asked me
meant by stabbinE him in the
me. I was very sorry to see
ii so far. but somehow as he
BIN his beast, and heard him
bp' like bag OF feed. I was
nat / had killed him. for after
furn to Alexandria. I found out
friend that IL was n precon-
plot on my guides part to
q out on tho. desert TO n GER
lasts where was to be held
the New Britain Herald should
or bail me out. Had this hap
"A OF course you see you would
r have received this letter. for
conceive that tho New Britain
IA has never been NO ravenous-
votous and omnivorous for either
>erson or my writing.
/. what l wish to say IL. that
had buried my Arab, or per-
I should say. "Mohammed's
p and was just turning to re-
he my camel. 1 saw something
ring on tho yellow sand.
Nh Il up. and imagine my aston
ent Us unfolded It to see IL
tho New Britain Evening Herald.
he right down and read It, ad-
iacmcnts and nil. All. my dear
or, you do not-cannot know, how
sundly moved l was. There
No many thousands OF miles away
the dearest town on earth, and
can its pages, l assure you. was
dose of soothing syrup to my
wrought nerves. There was, my
ds red with n fellowman's blood,
vet I'm spite of this narrowing
I'm ten minutes after beginning
cad, I felt that I was not a muir
r., but was on tho verge OF taking
Iy orders" We'll" I said to my
as I remounted my camel. and
mother. III tho New Britain Her
will do ms much for n mans con-
nee. after he's murdered n for
r, what ought II do for the man
oman who will take the trouble
ND IL every night?
the Mayor of Egypt as well as
Government, l shall say more
v cordially yours.
- HANK LONG.