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Title: Gérôme : the life and works of Jean Léon Gérôme
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hering, Fanny Field
Subjects: Gérôme, Jean Léon, 1824-1904
Publisher: New York : Published by Cassell Publishing Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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tianox, with Ins twisted feel and horns turned upside down, does not figure on thelisl id food supplies. Thanks to the importance oi Medinet, we had a good dealof trouble in finding a place for our tents. A laundry and abattoir, against whichd unconsciously hacked up, forced us to move off farther. It was not an-Han io imd a place, lor the proprietors did not seem eager to entertain us.While we were strolling along one of the branches of the canal, our dragilike a \ el liable Solomon, solved the difficult \ \ large field, bordered with cacti, presented a most inviting appearance; only, the middle oi this attractive prairie was occupied by stacks ol maize, driedand carefullj arranged. Bu1 a dragoman who has a real saber doesn1 care for little details like ilia1 Ai a Bign, the donkey-boys, camel-drivers, domestics, and he himseli i. ii io work; the hedge was scaled and the bunches of maize Hew through theair as il by enchantment. In the twinkling ol an eye Ihe place was cleared THE ROSE
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LIFE AND WORKS OF /■ GER&ME 153 and our tents peacefully pitched on this field of battle so oddly conquered.We wen a little anxious as to the dinoucment oi this socialistic proceeding, andthe interpretation the proprietor would not fail to put on it. Bui our drago-man, who was possessed ol a special toupet (cheek!), and a still more Orientalimagination, anticipated the danger; he wenl to see the owner of the fieldand explained that the prince (Gerdmi I) whom he escorted was doing him agreat honor in thus being willing to install himsell on his property I Charmedby this flattering preference, the proprietor was almosl read) to come himself•nd aid our donkey-boys to pitch his last ricks ol straw ovi i thi bedgi . whenour camels had already begun to bave a least We made several excursionsaround the country. The extraordinary fertility ol this part of the provincesurpassed anything we could imagine . several harvests are gathered every year.The clover, for instance, is cut three t

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