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Title: Across Asia Minor on foot
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Childs, W. J
Subjects: Turkey -- Description and travel
Publisher: Edinburgh : W. Blackwood
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d its light gave a touch ofweirdness to the scene. By this time men on footwere passing, carrying packs and evidently going far,and bullock-carts and waggons and arahas. Andwhen I glanced at the sky again the stars were stillbright and the castle rock dark; for my watchshowed the hour as only a little after five. When leaving the khan for another day in thecity, I witnessed the summary punishment of a thief,whose operations I had watched with interest. Be-tween two heaps of barley spread on a large sheetin the khan-yRvd, a couple of kneeling men, whodisputed as buyer and seller, were carefully measur-ing grain. So absorbed were they in shaking themeasure, in levelling off the barley on top, andarguing about too much shaking or not enough, thatthey overlooked a barefooted boy pilfering behindthem. His scheme was simple and audacious. Hestole up noiselessly with a bowl, filled it and madeoff, and came again. He made a number of success-ful trips, and varied them sometimes by coming into
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< OLD BUILDINGS 85 view and nonchalantly watching the measuring. De-tected at last when filling the bowl, he ran, but thebarley-merchant ran faster and captured him in thearchway leading to the street. Having knockeddown the thief, the merchant dragged him to acobblers hutch in the Man-yard, pressed the victimshead on the doorstep, snatched a flat-faced hammer,and began smiting, using the step as an anvil, as itwere. What he smote was the head, and his blowswere not light ones. The boys screams quicklyceased, and I intervened. He seemed to havebecome insensible. But the angry barley-merchanthad done this kind of thing before, apparently, andknew how to deal with fainting. He stopped hisblows and violently pulled the boys ears, first oneand then the other, as a restorative process, and thescreams recommenced ; but with that the punishmentended. In Amasia you may see old mosques with cloisteredcourtyards, Seljuk colleges, tekJces, and hlians; thereare old bridges, old houses, and roc

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