| Show C hilary graham donner DRY WEATHER david wandered across afghanistan after wind had given him a little lift ile he found the air so dry in these mountains ile he saw many shepherds tending their flocks but kept on wandering north and west until he came to the caspian sea and saw places where it seemed as though they cared far nothing in the world except oil theres no accounting for tastes as some one has haa said david remarked to himself up north of caspian and the sea of aral he passed the map shepherds who told him how they had to change their homes twice a year to follow the feeding places where they would find green grass tor for their flocks lie ile came down into persia then where he had lunch and passed villages of dark narrow streets and saw rugs rugg being woven and so many unusual sights he hoped he would remember them allt alit he knew he would never forget the bread and cheese and milk and stew that he had for lunch and he liked it rather because they told him he could eat with his fingers they fussy but now lie he turned off into mesopotamia and before he knew it he was talking to another river well lie he liked to talk to rivers they traveled r vr 7 F al it was tigris i and knew so BO much that was going on their moving certainly kept them well informed they always could tell him of so many places it was tigris who talked to him lie met tigris at bagdad which he knew was the famous city of the arabian nights he wandered about on the river riding on a raft made of inflated goatskins goat skins and lie he saw the orange groves groes all around bagdad the palm trees lie ile saw men wearing turbans and long gowns riding mules and letting their ton loep tresses I drag along the ground anti anil ie saw raw donkeys find camels the very nnnie name mesopotamia clr rl told him as he wandered along etli menns means between the ivors 1 sometimes now the country coun tri s called iraq its right between syria und and persia along my river are arc lie be ruins of nineveh eh that old nit old ity that used aed to he be so rich and fil ions imis aird the of babylon are nt t fur far south of bagdad dad 1111 tant T want to tell you about MN m iver cpr companion id like IMP to hear about him david did aid illin im a sort of river too in A VAY I 1 like to wander tigris grin grinned ped a funny rippling iver her grin feo has told us about you well on oil see there Is myself awl and there Is ia he Pup euphrates brates euphrates Is an old ild ad river famous as can be he Is 19 big and wide and clear and beautiful up tip near sit it ararat you know of mt aft ararat david had looked as though he recognized the name of course you dot dol tigris went on without making david speak fl i for it has been famous ever since those days of the flood david nodded how much one did know when only some one remembered for you when euphrates gets down here where it Is hot and dry he shrivels up and stay so green and rushing and deep and beautiful along our rivers wandering tribes of arabs with their flocks and their herds move from one oasis to another for grass and water along nile in egypt and around us evere were to be found the onlo civilized nations in the old borozne age 1 I know nile well li david said niles nice said gald tigris and david thought it was quite fine to see that there was vas no river jealousy you see euphrates and I 1 have so much to say to each other we have seen so much in our days begot we got so weca always hear each otner ofner so well there was flie he distance between as for one thing and we did want to say such a lot so we kept saying to each other 1 11 11 I cant hear you will you speak blittle a little louder loud crl and we continued saying that so often that we found ourselves getting closer and closer to t gether we felt as though we had so much to talk about old olden days and what not that we must be together soine gome of the time so we unite and we flow together into the persian gulf then it Is 1 that we compare cotea |
