Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 442
yearsold are sent to tend the flocks. We saw manyof these boys in the fields, and nearly all wereplaying on musical instruments which they hadmade from reeds. One of my most attractive acquaintances wasa boy who spent the entire day working a shadoof,which is first cousin to our old oaken bucket.He… … EVERY AMERICAN BOY WOULD LIKE THE EGYPTIAN SAIL-BOATS 250 WHAT SOME EGYPTIAN BOYS DO or cows, or whatever happens to turn the wheelof the sakieh, which is usually a string ofbuckets on a chain, has a much easier time. Hesits in the middle of the wheel, occasionally touch-ing the animals with a whip…
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