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"I enjoy you," he said, s "Yes, child, I enjoy it; only

I don't enjoy such villainous roads"

"But then, papa, you know it is the only possible way the road

can go, and always has been; and so we are sure that Christ

was here "

Papa looked at

The as so pleasant, that alked on ahead of our mules,

till we cae to look at the water pouring out its never failing

strea just so ever since

nineteen hundred years ago

"How often travellers have rested here and drunk of the water,

papa; how often Christ was here"

"That arch was not over the spring in those days, though,"

said papa

But papa stood and looked at the spring and at the ravine, and

I saw that he was catching so We mounted

there, and the rest of the e had no more talk I did not

want to talk There was too h valleys or watercourses arew constantly warot lower

No trees, no life, no vine terraces; and this was the way to

Jericho At the ruined khan, a good distance from the top, we

dismounted and stopped to rest and take our lunch

"Well, Daisy," said papa, "are you enjoying yet?"

"Every lad But I aood rest here; and here is an orange

for you I will give you so else directly"

Papa stretched himself out wearily on the stones

"What is the source of your pleasure just now, Daisy? It is as

barren a landscape as ever I traversed"

"Papa, David went this hen he fled from Absalom"

"Humph!" said papa, as if there were not much pleasure in that

association

"And Jesus and His apostles came this way, up from Jericho; up