rder
that you may suffer no inconvenience, I will bring hither all your
boxes and all your trunks on the backs of a score of Arab porters."

"You know you intend to do no such thing," said she. "You have
already told me your ideas as to waiting upon young ladies."

There was, however, at last some whispering between Miss Baker and
her niece, in which Mr. M'Gabbery vainly attempted to join, and the
matter ended in one of the grooms being sent into the town, laden
with a bunch of keys and a written message for Miss Baker's servant.
Before dinner-time, Miss Waddington had comfortably changed her
stockings in the upper story of the tomb of St. James, and Mr.
M'Gabbery--but Mr. M'Gabbery's wet feet did not receive the attention
which they deserved.

Passing on from the pool of Siloam, they came to a water-course at
which there was being conducted a considerable washing of clothes.
The washerwomen--the term is used as being generic to the trade and
not to the sex, for some of the performers were men--were divided
into two classes, who worked separately; not so separately but what
they talked together, and were on friendly terms; but still there was
a division. The upper washerwomen, among whom the men were at work,
were Mahomedans; the lower set were Jewesses. As to the men, but
little observation was made, except that they seemed expert enough,
dabbing their clothes, rubbing in the soap, and then rinsing, very
much in the manner of Christians. But it was impossible not to look
at the women. The female followers of the Prophet had, as they
always have, some pretence of a veil for their face. In the present
instance, they held in their teeth a dirty blue calico rag, which
passed over their heads, acting also as a shawl. By this contrivance,
intended only to last while the Christians were there, they concealed
one side of the face and the chin. No one could behold them without
wishing that the eclipse had been total. No epithet commonly applied
to women in this country could adequately describe their want of
comeliness. They kept their faces to their work, and except that they
held their rags between their teeth, they gave no sign of knowing
that strangers were standing by them.

It was different with the Jewesses. When they were stared at, they
stood up boldly and stared again;--and well worth looking at they
were. There were three or four of them, young women all, though
already mothers, for their children were playing o