The Innocents Abroad


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Mohammedan sheik should deem proper.  
"As I mounted, Yusef once more begged me to interfere and have mercy  
on them, but I looked around at the dark faces of the crowd, and I  
couldn't find one drop of pity in my heart for them."  
He closes his picture with a rollicking burst of humor which contrasts  
finely with the grief of the mother and her children.  
One more paragraph:  
"Then once more I bowed my head. It is no shame to have wept in  
Palestine. I wept, when I saw Jerusalem, I wept when I lay in the  
starlight at Bethlehem. I wept on the blessed shores of Galilee.  
My hand was no less firm on the rein, my anger did not tremble on  
the trigger of my pistol when I rode with it in my right hand along  
the shore of the blue sea" (weeping.) "My eye was not dimmed by  
those tears nor my heart in aught weakened. Let him who would sneer  
at my emotion close this volume here, for he will find little to his  
taste in my journeyings through Holy Land."  
He never bored but he struck water.  
I am aware that this is a pretty voluminous notice of Mr. Grimes' book.  
However, it is proper and legitimate to speak of it, for "Nomadic Life in  
Palestine" is a representative book--the representative of a class of  
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