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There were: boiled potatoes, olives “lebone” (much like cream cheese), large Arabic loaves of bread, oranges, greens which we picked along the wayside and imrrted
corned beef.
Shepherds watched their flocks Which were most often a mixture of goats and sheep. In the distance I heard a shepherd’s flute and we Came near enough one little shepherd boy to hear him singing in his Oriental minor key. So often I was reminded of parables arid Bible characters. It seemed that. I was living 2000 years ago and all of the people and places were walking out of the pages of the Bible. There they were just as I had read and studied about them* There they were—people Wearing loose-fitting garments and with sandled or bare feet. There they were—the fields, rocky, fertile and nothing but ledge. There they were—the vineyards lying flat on The ground while the huge gnaled trunks formed strange patterns. There they were—the village wells or more often the watering places where 'women washed clothes or filled water jars, children played and animals drank. There they were—people, people, people with hearts just as hungry and needy as when Jesus walked among their
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