![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She stopped crying, shuffled its dryness thrice with her lips then again lifted her head and, with a whimper, strode forward. On the ground before her he spread the little hide, and drew her head down to it. He lighted with a splash of gravel in front of Ghazala, who had come to a standstill, gently moaning. I tried to urge her : but Abdulla dashed alongside me, swept his cloak about him, and sprang from his saddle, calf's skin in hand. Lawrence rides well at first, but after an hour Ghazala lifted her head high, and began to pace uneasily, picking up her feet like a sword-dancer. The foal of Lawrence's great camel, Ghazala, had lately died and an Arab had skinned the carcass and taken the skin with him. An excellent example of how Lawrence's War Diary later prompted his imagination is the brief entry- Camel dead calf, suffering over skin- that he transforms into a strangely moving passage. ![]()
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