Dod Overseas Schools: Compensation Adequate for Recruiting and Retaining Well-Qualified Teachers

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...master, and between his legs, until he had twisted and doubled the cord so about his limbs that he was able to drag the man back to the fraternal circle from which he had just been purchased. Shouts of laughter greeted the discomfited man on all sides; and it was not.until the swineherd came to his release that he could extricate himself from the tyranny of the brute. Taking the advice of the swineherd, he seized the hind legs of the obstinate, ill-tempered pig, and trundled him oiT amidst peals of laughter from the bystanders. There was another strange sight in the same neighborhood--that of shaving mules and asses. Three or four persons attacked one animal at the same time, taking good care to protect themselves from the anger of the mule by tying its fore and hind legs tightly together with a grass rope, and pressing its nose between two wooden levers. They used very sharp shears, one blade of which lay flat against the animal s skin, while the other played upon the first, being slightly inclined towards it. The poor beasts looked very foolish and uncomfortable. ' Beggars attended the fair in great numbers. clad in their most disgusting garments, and delighting in displaying their most dreadful deformities. One old woman, in a short, patched, red petticoat, bare brown legs and feet, thin gray hair hanging in two scanty braids behind, and wearing about her forehead and ears ponderous gilded ornaments, drew near the pony carriage, dragging by the bridle an unwilling ass. For the love of Heaven, fair lady, said the old woman, give me a trifle for my poor husband here! The children looked in vain for the husband; and the woman, noticing their perplexity, said, Show your old weatherbeaten head, ...