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Page 56
A coachman wrote a long petition to Agenoria , imploring her to give work to
some relation of his whom she had never seen . “ You ask Mr. R. , " he said , “
your marriad , English husband always do what his wife tell him . " While she was
sitting ...
A coachman wrote a long petition to Agenoria , imploring her to give work to
some relation of his whom she had never seen . “ You ask Mr. R. , " he said , “
your marriad , English husband always do what his wife tell him . " While she was
sitting ...
Page 57
Agenoria kept a flamingo , six gazelles , a dozen dogs , and fifteen cats , who
were not all belonging to her . The flamingo had an admirer in a skinny old hen ;
he used to stride round the garden with the hen running herself breathless to
keep ...
Agenoria kept a flamingo , six gazelles , a dozen dogs , and fifteen cats , who
were not all belonging to her . The flamingo had an admirer in a skinny old hen ;
he used to stride round the garden with the hen running herself breathless to
keep ...
Page 58
One day Abdul Makram sent for Agenoria's niece , at seven o'clock in the
morning , to say that the cook was taking things away , and that he would not let
her pass . When the niece had slipped on a dressing - gown and reached the
point of ...
One day Abdul Makram sent for Agenoria's niece , at seven o'clock in the
morning , to say that the cook was taking things away , and that he would not let
her pass . When the niece had slipped on a dressing - gown and reached the
point of ...
Page 59
Agenoria's German cook was in the same room with her . The attendants did not
pay much heed to the patients ; they did not even tie paraffin rags round the legs
of the beds , so the ants swarmed in the governess's wounds all night . She was ...
Agenoria's German cook was in the same room with her . The attendants did not
pay much heed to the patients ; they did not even tie paraffin rags round the legs
of the beds , so the ants swarmed in the governess's wounds all night . She was ...
Page 60
One native , who was suffering from the standard Egyptian complaint of weak
eyes , went up to an old French lady , at an evening party at Agenoria's , and tried
to pick a mole off her neck . The Egyptians recognise the sand - fly as the worst of
...
One native , who was suffering from the standard Egyptian complaint of weak
eyes , went up to an old French lady , at an evening party at Agenoria's , and tried
to pick a mole off her neck . The Egyptians recognise the sand - fly as the worst of
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Queer Things about Egypt |
| Author | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Hurst & Blackett, Limited, 1911 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Mar 2012 |
| Length | 428 pages |
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