Long wooden spits were brought and the lambs, with heads on but the right fore limbs removed, were fixed for roasting. The refuse parts were destroyed by fire. Unleavened bread, a sort of thin, rolled pastry, was passed about in little bits with bitter herb rolled inside. As it was late and the ritual over, the actual consumption of the lambs, which comes along towards midnight, being said to be a very ordinary affair, we started down the mountain for Nâblus. The moon, now golden, flooded the beautiful valley with its light. Such a night! We soon reached our rooms in the town and said “good night” all around. READING LIST CURTISS, SAMUEL IVES: “Primitive Semitic Religion Today.” JESSUP, H. H.: “Women of the Arabs.” N. Y., 1874. MASTERMAN, E. W. G.: “Studies in Galilee.” MITCHELL and HANAUER: “Tales Told in Palestine.” FINN, JAMES: “Stirring Times.” (C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878.) HOGARTH, D. G.: “The Penetration of Arabia.” MUIR, SIR WILLIAM: “The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline and Fall.” SMITH, W. ROBERTSON: “Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia.” GIBBONS, HERBERT ADAMS: “The Ottoman Turks.” CHAPTER VI THE BUSINESS LIFE OF THE VILLAGE The Palestine peasant can do hard work. When half starved, anemic, hounded and terror-stricken he naturally enough fails to be as brisk and as inventive as he might otherwise be, but with half a chance he is industrious and thrifty. There are the lazy and the active as in other countries. As a general rule it might be said that the Palestinian is accustomed to work hard, but not steadily; liking to rest occasionally, not understanding, nor benefiting by, a system of sharp espionage or, more properly, “nagging.” This latter frets him and destroys his efficiency, and ought not to be practised on him. A good-natured firmness that holds him to the letter of agreements in simple, plainly understood terms is much better. [Illustration: FARMING IMPLEMENTS] 1. Plow. 2. Threshing sledge, showing the under side. 3 and 4. Grain forks. 5. Wooden shovel or fan. 6. Seed-tube. 7. Sieve. 8. Dung basket. 9. Goad and share cleaner, the iron-shod end being used as the latter. 11. Yokes. Pruning knives and sickles are also seen in the picture. (From the Hartford Theological Seminary Collection.)