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JERUSALEM.
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tomatoes and onions, and other garden produce, while from more distant villages, especially
Bethlehem and Artas, troops of donkeys come laden with enormous cauliflowers and turnips,
guided by boys in white shirts girdled with broad red leather belts. The pleasant-looking
A STREET CAFE, JERUSALEM.
A Bedouin and peasant playing at a game called dameh.
Bethlehem women, wearing crimson and yellow striped or blue gowns with long white linen
veils, carry on their heads baskets of grapes, figs, prickly pears, pomegranates, and apricots, or
whatever fruit is in season. Sometimes this market-place is almost blocked up with piles of
melons, or with oranges and lemons from Jaffa, and in the early summer time roses are sold
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tomatoes and onions, and other garden produce, while from more distant villages, especially
Bethlehem and Artas, troops of donkeys come laden with enormous cauliflowers and turnips,
guided by boys in white shirts girdled with broad red leather belts. The pleasant-looking
A STREET CAFE, JERUSALEM.
A Bedouin and peasant playing at a game called dameh.
Bethlehem women, wearing crimson and yellow striped or blue gowns with long white linen
veils, carry on their heads baskets of grapes, figs, prickly pears, pomegranates, and apricots, or
whatever fruit is in season. Sometimes this market-place is almost blocked up with piles of
melons, or with oranges and lemons from Jaffa, and in the early summer time roses are sold
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