Wouldn't Sell Her

A gentleman wno traveiea inrougn Syria and Palestine with his sister contributes to the Forest and Stream the following account oí a bit of adventure which befell thom on the way to Jericho. They had halted for rest and for their noonday raoal at a wayside well where a party of Arab merehants was also encaraped, whou the interview here described took place: After the customary salaams had been exchanged, and we had jointly and severally wished that prospenty might wait upon each other's households, silence reignod between us for a while. I noticed that now and then one of the young Arab traden cast furtive glances at niv sister, but bolieving them to be partíy duo to astonishment that any girl should go unveiled, I was not at all prepared for the somewhat abrupt remark which suddenly broke the silence betwoen us, nor for the conversation which followed in this wisc: "What would the howadji bo willing to sell her for?" "Disappointment vex not my brother, but I could not soll her." "I will give tlie howadji a camel and two donkeys for her." "The oliVr is generóos, bat I have no wisli topart with her. She is the howadji's sister." "Tiab, but yoyr brother is rieh, and will give eren two camels and a donkey for her. The oller ia grefc" "No, I deaire not to bargain. It it impossibh; th;U slu ba boaght." ¦Does the howa Iji speak as a truo man not wishing to sell, or evon as one who desireth a large price?" "As a man that meaneth what he hath said." Cood." And here our exchange oí ideas rolapsed into silence again.