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"Studying it all, Daisy?"

"Papa, I a"

"This is a wonderful place"

"Papa, you know little about it yet Old Jericho was up

there"

"You speak as if I had gone to school in 'old Jericho,' " said

uest idea, Daisy, that

such a city existed That is all"

"Sit down, papa, while breakfast is getting ready, and let e"

So we read the story there, on the stone by the spring Mr

Dinwiddie joined us; and it was presently decided that we

should spend the hbourhood and the old sites of what had passed away So

after breakfast we sat out upon a walk over the territory of

old Jericho

"But it is strange," said papa, "if the city was here, that

there are no architectural remains to testify as much"

"We rarely find them, sir, but in connection with Roman or

Saracenic work Shapeless mounds, and broken pottery, as you

have it here, are all that generally mark our Palestine

ruins"

"But Herod?" said papa "He was a builder"

"Herod's Jericho was ahad been re here that could be