A pilgrimage to the temples and tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and ...

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had been warned to restrain herself, and she did,
for there was no absolute violation of decorum
in her performance ; but in the sample she gave
us of her skill, there was neither poetry, nor im-
agination, nor ideality, — it was " of the earth,
earthy,"—the nymph was a clod of clay, and her
inspirations were not warmed by one spark of the
feu sacre, which sometimes for a moment converts
clay into something little less than divine
As we w^ere passing by a garden-wall on our
way back to the Dahabieh, a fine fox jumped up
almost under our feet, and scampered away as if
a pack of hounds had been at his heels. A
royal salute from a double-barrelled gun w^as fired
—not at him, but over his head—in token of the
respect which the sight of his brush inspired;
and as he made his way towards the Libyan hills,
scared by such unwonted honours, the echoes of
Esneh for the first time resounded to the in-
spiriting tones of a genuine Leicestershire Tal-
lyho!—and our Arabs, delighting in noise,
and taken by the novelty of the Avord, quickly
caught it up, and shouted again and again,
Tallyho !
!