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And the foreheads of Islam are bowed as one!

To him the palm is a gift divine,

Wherein all uses of man combine

House, and raiment, and food, and wine.

And, in the hour of his great release,
His need of the palm shall only cease
With the shroud wherein he lieth in peace.

"Allah il Allah!" he sings his psalm,
On the Indian sea, by the isles of balm;
"Thanks to Allah who gives the palm!"

-Courtesy of Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

Dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, dong, went the clock.

"Good-nights" were said, and the children went off, repeating:

"House, and raiment, and food, and

wine.'

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TO THE PUPILS: Allah is Arabian for God; Abdallah Abd, servant + Allah, God. Islam, believers in Mohamet. From the poem make a list of words of more than one syllable. Syllabicate them, and mark the accented syllable.

TO THE TEACHER: The second and fifth stanzas require an explanation of certain features of Mohammedanism.

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HUNDRED-FIRST EVENING

Well, children, we have but two more evenings before I sail. You know I go the day after Christmas," said Grandma, as the four settled themselves for the evening.

"But you will write to us, Grandma, won't you?" asked May.

"Certainly; and you must write to me. Now to finish our story: "

The merchant said that he could not. On Ali Baba's asking him why, he replied: "I no longer eat food that has salt in it.”

"If that is all," said Ali Baba, "let me tell you that there will be no salt in either the meat or the bread that we eat to-night."

He went to give this who was much surprised. she said,

order to Morgiana, "Who is this man,

66 who eats no salt with his meat?

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