Abdallah! Abdallah! why don't you pay the man? That fellow is always
striving to save half a piastre for me."
"I wish he wasn't quite so particular," said Mrs. Damer, who was
already becoming rather tired; "but I'm sure he's a very honest man in
trying to protect us from being robbed."
"That he is," said Miss Dawkins. "What a delightful trait of national
character it is to see these men so faithful to their employers." And
then at last they got over the ferry, Mr. Ingram having descended among
the combatants, and settled the matter in dispute by threats and
shouts, and an uplifted stick.
They crossed the broad Nile exactly at the spot where the nilometer, or
river guage, measures from day to day, and from year to year, the
increasing or decreasing treasures of the stream, and landed at a
village where thousands of eggs are made into chickens by the process
of artificial incubation.
Mrs. Damer thought that it was very hard upon the maternal hens--the
hens which should have been maternal--that they should be thus robbed
of the delights of motherhood.
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