An elderly sheik shared this little ceremony with us, and afterwards benignly gave the waterman a coin and made him spurt scented water on his face and beard.

Our correspondent found that timekeeping had suffered following the substitution of Class 5 4-6-0s on these workings.

[…]she took it down, looked long and fondly at it, then, shaking her curls about her face, as if to hide the act, pressed it to her lips and seemed to weep over it in an uncontrollable paroxysm of tender grief.

A growing number of Esperantists all over the world are using the services of the U. E. A.