The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress • Paragraph 1649
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But when necessity demanded, he could be firm as adamant. In the Lebanon Valley an Arab youth--a Christian; he is particular to explain that Mohammedans do not steal--robbed him of a paltry ten dollars' worth of powder and shot. He convicted him before a sheik and looked on while he was punished by the terrible bastinado. Hear him: