A Ride To India Across Persia And Baluchistan By Harry De Windt









































 -  You must be hungry - leading the way into the dining-room,
where a long, deep crack in the whitewashed wall - Page 143
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"You Must Be Hungry" - Leading The Way Into The Dining-Room, Where A Long, Deep Crack In The Whitewashed Wall Showed Traces Of Last Night's Disaster.

The latter had, apparently, considerably upset my host, who, throughout the meal, kept continually rising and walking to the

Open window and back again, in an evidently uneasy state of mind; so much so that I was about to propose an adjournment to the garden, when a diversion was created by the entrance of a servant with a dish of "Sklitch," which he had no sooner placed on the table, than he rapidly withdrew. Sklitch is peculiar to this part of Persia. It is made of a kind of moss gathered on the mountains, mixed with cream and dates, and, iced, is delicious. But scarcely had I raised the first mouthful to my lips when my host leapt out of his seat. "There it is again," he cried. "Run!" and with a bound disappeared through the window. Before I could reach it the floor was rocking so that I could scarcely keep my feet, and I was scarcely prepared for the drop of nine feet that landed me on to the flower-beds. The shock lasted quite ten seconds. Every moment I expected to see the house fall bodily over. I left poor E - - busily engaged in removing his instruments into the garden. "Another night like the last would turn my hair grey," he said, as we bade him good-bye. Truly the lot of a Persian telegraph official is not always a bed of roses.

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