Vulgar words in The Innocents Abroad — Volume 05 (Page 1)
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Patriarchal Customs-Magnificent Baalbec-Description of the Ruins-Scribbling Smiths and Joneses-Pilgrim Fidelity to the Letter of the Law-The Revered Fountain of Baalam's Ass CHAPTER XLIV.
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We were desperate-would take horses, jackasses, cameleopards, kangaroos-any thing.
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Not content with doubling the legitimate stages, they switched off the main road and went away out of the way to visit an absurd fountain called Figia, because Baalam's ass had drank there once.
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So we journeyed on, through the terrible hills and deserts and the roasting sun, and then far into the night, seeking the honored pool of Baalam's ass, the patron saint of all pilgrims like us.
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Beautiful stream in a chasm, lined thick with pomegranate, fig, olive and quince orchards, and nooned an hour at the celebrated Baalam's Ass Fountain of Figia, second in size in Syria, and the coldest water out of Siberia-guide-books do not say Baalam's ass ever drank there-somebody been imposing on the pilgrims, may be.
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Over it is a very ancient ruin, with no known history-supposed to have been for the worship of the deity of the fountain or Baalam's ass or somebody.
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Yesterday we met a woman riding on a little jackass, and she had a little child in her arms-honestly, I thought the child had goggles on as we approached, and I wondered how its mother could afford so much style.
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They had with them the pigmy jackasses one sees all over Syria and remembers in all pictures of the "Flight into Egypt," where Mary and the Young Child are riding and Joseph is walking alongside, towering high above the little donkey's shoulders.