| Show A GRIM AMUSEMENT y torture sek indicted ahll a curious gitile A custom of the abyssinian braves is described by pearsons weekly the iris themselves play an active part here when young people are gathered for amusement one of them will begin peeling a straw of green millet which is full of pith iter lovers blood runs cold probably siut he must smile or own himself a craven when she has cut the pith into bits an long he stretches out his bare arm the example set every girl alio respects herself and has a lover follows it the young men form a circle with arms extended blithely then with many a jest doubtless the maidens arrange their bits of pith upright in some fanciful design on the bare flesh and set alight they are nearly an inch thick and th cyburn very slowly but the hapless youth must stand and smile as well as he can blood of the spared flesh extinguishes them |
