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Among the Lilies

The Children of the Town.

HEN summer suns are shining, B And countless joys are ours- The matchless grace of nature, The fragrance of the flowers- When lingering by the ocean, Or on the heath-clad down, What are our brothers doing- The children of the town?

In many a narrow alley, In many a crowded room, They sit with pallid faces Amid the dirt and gloom!

They've never seen a daisy, Or heard a rippling stream; Speak to them of the ocean- They count it but a dream!

Journeys, acquire a kind of reputation for rein of the bridle tight, and passes it over their safety and skill; and their value a ring on the forepart of the saddle; this rises in proportion to their fame.

Being more hardy than horses these animals are preferred to them for journeys across the deserts. Most of the Musselman pilgrims use them in the long and laborious journeys to Mecca; and the confines the animal's head, and is sufficient to make him remain patiently in his place.

In the principal streets of Cairo, Donkeys stand ready bridled and saddled for hire, and answer the same purposes as hackneycoaches in our cities. The person who chiefs of the Nubian caravans, which are lets them accompanies his Donkey, runsixty days in passing immense solitudes, ning behind to goad him on, and to cry ride upon Donkeys; and these, on their out to those on foot to make way. The arrival in Egypt, do not appear fatigued. animals are regularly rubbed down and When the rider alights, he has no occasion washed, which renders their coat smooth, to fasten his Donkey; he merely pulls the soft and glossy.