Show ARE MASTERS OF EVASIVENESS 4 l Bedouins Answer Typlcil of the People Peo-ple of the East l In tho tar east when men converse t it t tJ together an evasion Is equal to an answer Hiding down to Egypt over tho old caravan routo from Jerusalem S to Cairo Norman Duncan and a party pitched their tents outside a Bedouin Tillage and by so doing offended against the laws of hospitality which q tho people bo religiously maintain Mr Duncan writing In Harpers Mag fl azine says that he was obliged to turn aside lliplr rnnroaehes nnd nvnlil tlm abominable quarters which were still 4 being offered Turning to his guide bo said The nvin must be diverted Ask him If tho world Is round ort or-t 1 flat Tho reply was a pure philosophers philoso-phers Jewel of the cast If the world I Is flat came tho response after heavy pondering I am content It It Is round it Is by Gods wlsaom And tho men SOftlY applauded In their pleasure forgetting their Injury forgetting for-Getting everything except tho joyous native craft of words I |