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On Friday the 9th, the day for the execution, the sky was unspotted, save by hastily fleeting clouds; and as the rising sun loomed over the Taos Mountain, the bright rays, shining on the yellow and white mud-houses, reflected cheerful hues, while the shades of the toppling peaks, receding from the plain beneath, drew within themselves. The humble valley wore an air of calm repose.
So it came about that when she entered his palace in Tyre, Miriam found it decked as though for a bride, and wandered in amazement she who had known nothing better than the mud-houses of the Essenes from hall to hall of the ancient building that in bygone generations had been the home of kings and governors.
They wage war against robins and wrens, pick quarrels with swallows, and seem to deliberate for days over the policy of taking forcible possession of one of the mud-houses of the latter. But as the season advances they drift more into the background.
We are on the principal thoroughfare of Seoul, which we can easily perceive by the amount of traffic on it as compared with the other narrower and deserted streets. The mud-houses on each side, as we descend towards the old royal palace, are miserable and dirty, the front rooms being used as shops, where eatables, such as rice, dried fruit, &c, are sold.
Yet there be mirages, and one day soon David Pasha will come hither, and our pains shall be eased." "Aiwa, aiwa yes, yes," cried the lad who had sung to them. "Aiwa, aiwa," rang softly over the pond, where naked children stooped to drink. The smell of the cooking-pots floated out from the mud-houses near by. "Malaish," said one after another, "I am hungry. He will come again-perhaps to-morrow."
We shall be taken to Khartoum, where the beaten force will rally and defend it to the last." "Not rally here, Ibrahim?" said Frank eagerly. "No, Excellency. This is no place to defend. The well-drilled troops would sweep through it after their heavy guns and scatter the mud-houses into heaps. No, the dervishes will hoist their standards at Khartoum.
These have been extending for years, and increasing, absorbing the habitats of these primitive and innocent people, who retire to some little ridge of land deeper in the swamp, a few inches higher than the plane of the swamp, where they surround their little mud-houses with an acre or so of open land, from the products of which, and the trophies of the gun and fishing-line and hook, and an occasional frog, and the abundance of crawfish, they contrive to eke out a miserable livelihood, and afford the fullest illustration of the adage, "Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise."
Hard by the point on the north at which it begins its inland bend rise the whitewashed, one-story mud-houses of the town El Katif. Belonging to the Arabs, the most unchangeable of peoples, both the town and the bay were known in the period of our story by their present names.
An army was sent against Zebehr, who easily defeated it, and proclaimed himself ruler of the Soudan or 'land of the black, south of Khartoum, then a little group of three thousand mud-houses on the left bank of the Blue Nile, three miles from its junction with the White Nile.
The best group was al fresco, representing half-naked gipsy-like creatures with coal-black hair squatting outside tents and mud-houses, the women smoking pipes. And this exhibition of unrealities brings me on to the most original feature of the Exhibition, which seems to have escaped all the reporters to wit, the exhibition of realities. For the committee have hit on a most ingenious notion.
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