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Page 51
The only way to keep stores is to put them in boxes on tables whose feet rest in
pans of petroleum , or whose legs are wrapped with rags soaked in petroleum .
Mosquitoes ? one takes for granted , though strangers grow I " The voice of the ...
The only way to keep stores is to put them in boxes on tables whose feet rest in
pans of petroleum , or whose legs are wrapped with rags soaked in petroleum .
Mosquitoes ? one takes for granted , though strangers grow I " The voice of the ...
Page 59
When we had picked all the visible fleas off our coats and trousers , we took off
our coats and picked them off the linings , and unbuttoned our waistcoats and
picked them off our shirts , and stood up and knocked our feet against the seats to
...
When we had picked all the visible fleas off our coats and trousers , we took off
our coats and picked them off the linings , and unbuttoned our waistcoats and
picked them off our shirts , and stood up and knocked our feet against the seats to
...
Page 93
He sent telegraphic instructions to caution the station - master with fifty strokes of
the bastinado on the soles of his feet , which that functionary duly received . It
afterwards appeared that the vegetables had never been delivered at that station
.
He sent telegraphic instructions to caution the station - master with fifty strokes of
the bastinado on the soles of his feet , which that functionary duly received . It
afterwards appeared that the vegetables had never been delivered at that station
.
Page 101
Agenoria wrote a nice little letter of thanks , which so overcame the donor of the
feast that he replied , “ If I were not so unwholesome I would call and kiss your
feet . ” He only meant that he was not feeling well . Cromwell Rhodes had a
mango ...
Agenoria wrote a nice little letter of thanks , which so overcame the donor of the
feast that he replied , “ If I were not so unwholesome I would call and kiss your
feet . ” He only meant that he was not feeling well . Cromwell Rhodes had a
mango ...
Page 103
Then he remembered that he had a match in his overcoat pocket , and struck it . It
was his own servant , with his feet on the pillow and a bundle of his master's
clothes under his head . R. woke him up with a loud voice , and the servant at
once ...
Then he remembered that he had a match in his overcoat pocket , and struck it . It
was his own servant , with his feet on the pillow and a bundle of his master's
clothes under his head . R. woke him up with a loud voice , and the servant at
once ...
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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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