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'Through Persia on a side-saddle' [‎105] (136/360)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (313 pages). It was created in 1901. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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OLLA PODRIDA 105
dose of opium one day, telling Nasrullah Khan, who noticed
it staggering about, mortally sick and dizzy, that if once
it took to the drug it would never want to leave the
place. This pleasing fiction was, however, disproved, as
before very long the magpie deserted us and rejoined its
mates.
Bats flitted about in the evenings, reminding us of the
Persian legend that once a lump of clay in the form of a
mouse was brought to Christ, who was asked whether He
could endow it with life and the power of flight, and a bat
was the result. There were also small owls with a peculiarly
plaintive cry, but a huge one, that haunted our terraces,
indulged in a most lugubrious shrieking, so exactly like a
dog in pain that it was some time before I could grasp the
fact that it was a bird, not an animal, that produced these
weird yells and moans.
It was curious to hear the dogs in the town answer the
howling of the jackals, night after night, with furious
barking.
The Persians have a story that once the dogs were the
outsiders, while the jackals enjoyed life in the towns. The
former animals, however, cunningly pretended illness, and
persuaded the jackals to exchange places with them
until they recovered. This was agreed to, on condition
that the change should only be of three days' duration,
and at the end of that time the jackals returned, and
inquired whether their canine friends were convalescent;
but they received for answer a vigorous " No, no ! " the dis
honest dogs never having had the slightest intention of
quitting the comfortable town life for the cold and slow
starvation of the country. Hence it comes that the dis-
housed jackals vainly ask the same question every evening

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Through Persia on a side-saddle.

With an introduction by Major-General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, CB, KCSI.

Author: Ella C Sykes

Publication details: London, John Macqueen, 1901.

Physical description: xvi, 313 p; 8º.

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1 volume (313 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings ans page references. There is also a list of illustrations giving titles and page references.

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Dimensions: 225mm x 150mm

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English in Latin script
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