Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Budgett Meakin
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assisted in the winding, two small boys adjusted the sash with all due
state, after which a procession was formed round the house, and the actual wedding was over. Thus commenced a year's imprisonment for the bride, as it was not till she was herself a mother that she was permitted to revisit her old home. X THE BAIRNS "Every monkey is a gazelle to its mother." _Moorish Proverb._ If there is one point in the character of the Moor which commends itself above others to the mind of the European it is his love for his children. But when it is observed that in too many cases this love is unequally divided, and that the father prefers his sons to his daughters, our admiration is apt to wane. Though by no means an invariable rule, this is the most common outcome of the pride felt in being the father of a son who may be a credit to the house, and the feeling that a daughter who has to be provided for is an added responsibility. All is well when the two tiny children play together on the floor, and quarrel on equal terms, but it is another thing when little Hamed goes |
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