The Wedding of Zein
“If it were in winter time, when the palm trees are pollinated, you would find that a dark cloud had descended over the village. This, my son, would not be dust, nor yet that mist which rises up after rainfall. It would be a swarm of those sand-flies which obstruct all paths to those who wish to enter our village. Maybe you have seen this pest before, but I swear that you have never seen this particular species. Take this gauze netting, my son, and put it over your head. While it won’t protect y...ou against these devils, it will at least help you to bear them. I remember a friend of my son’s, a fellow student at school, whom my son invited to stay with us a year ago at this time of the year. His people come from the town. He stayed one night with us and got up next day, feverish, with a running nose and swollen face; he swore that he wouldn’t spend another night with us.
If you were to come to us in summer you would find the horse-flies with us — enormous flies the size of young sheep, as we say.MoreLess
If you were to come to us in summer you would find the horse-flies with us — enormous flies the size of young sheep, as we say.MoreLess
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