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Show .. ,A SOMALI LEQEyP. .. .. ""There wai i'I "funopped iuk tueeiad with etonee. and aa I waa paaaln. aaya a writer In the May Wide World, eeveral Somali women paeaed. Each one left the road and. aelectlnf atone, placed It on the heap. I Inquired the reaaon of thla The Somali verelon la aa followa: In the old daya before the Somalia Inhabited the country there waa a very had man. After a career of crime the Prorhet All, one of alohammed'e euceeeeore. puraued him end catihl him up by the tie rock. The had man dodaed All round the rock until the prophet, amwln furloua, drew hie aword and apllt the rock clean In two, and the mlerreent with II. In turnlna to an Aire borae kicked and the mark, of hie honfe are ehown In two round holee In the oth-erwlee oth-erwlee smooth atone. The epllt rock certainly cer-tainly haa Juat inch an appearance, and from time Immemorial It haa been the cuetom for women pee Ink to add a atone to the pile on the altar rloae by. The Somalia have many lepjenda of the people who occupied the country before them, ind talk if them a. havtne been Perwlenw |