NOT AN ENGLISHMAN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 15 February 1900, Page 28

NOT AN ENGLISHMAN.

Rev. Father O'Sullivav, the Egyptian missionary priest who waß lately in the United states, has travelled all over the land of the Pharaohs ; and he hardly found any place where there is not a son of the Emerald Me in tin- neighbourhood. One day he went to the highest point of tho pyramids nnd '-aw several Bedouins sitting in the shade of iN ba>-o. As a r I<>. the^e Bedouins are professional beggars, uho are «oiv-t.iiit l y asking strangers for ' backsheesh ' — money. They aio evor ready t<> ;u t as guides for persons desiring to a'-oend the pyramids. lie wj,h a^toni-hed to see them sitting quietly, but laur he learnt d why it w?»s that they were not buthenpg visitors As hv was pacing on l.c saw a British soldier, \uth a gun on his shoulder, a mnti-h-box cap on the side of his head, and a red jacket. Fathf r O'Sullivan thought he was the .«prv«iit of an English oflicer that he had just seen ascending the ancici't pile, and. walking up to him, n marked 'I suppose you are nn Englishman?' 'Ihe soldier brought his gun to an ' order arms,' and then, touching his cap, said 'Faith, I'm not, Father; I'm a County Longford man ; and I'm hi>rt to keep them black devils beyant from bothering decent men like jerself.'