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Show Strictly Neutral. Among the humorous and human stories in Dr. T. L. Pennell's recent book, "Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier," is one of a British officer in the Kurram valley who interrogated inter-rogated an Afridi with regard to what was then considered a probable conflict con-flict "Now tell me," said the officer, "if there were to be war which God forbid for-bid between Russia and England, what part would you and your people take? Whom would you side with?" "Do you wish me to tell you what would please you or to tell you the real truth?" was the naive reply. "I adjure you to tell me what is the 'white word.' " "Then," said the old graybeard, "we would just sit up here on our mountain moun-tain tops watching you both fight, until un-til we saw one or the other defeated. Then we would come down and loot the vanquished till the last mule! God is great! What a time that would be for us!" |