In the Tail of the Peacock

Set not thy heart on any good or gain-- Life means but pleasure, or it means but pain; When Time lets slip a little perfect hour, Oh! take it--for it will not come again.

_Tetuan_--the tiger-cat! so curiously beautiful. Recollections of it hang in the gallery of one's memory, not so much as pictures, but as Correggio-like masses of vivid colourin...

IT is not easy to find a lodging in Morocco: there are no _dak bungalows_--no large white English residences, with the familiar and hospitable _Burra Sahib_, a retinue of servan...

The stream of life runs, ah! so swiftly by, A gleaming race 'twixt bank and bank--we fly, Faces alight and little trailing songs, Then plunge into the gulf, and so good-bye.

IN spite of the attentions of Amanda, as December drew on and the weather showed no signs of clearing, we began to hanker after a week at Gibraltar, which should combine Christm...

"_The friendship of man is like the shade of the acacia. Yet while the friendship lives, it lives. When God wills it to die, it dies!_" mused Dicky, with a significant smile. "F...

And all this time you (at home) are drinking champagne (well, most of it, anyway), and sleeping in soft beds with delicious white sheets, and smoking Turkish cigarettes, and wea...

WE were once more upon the march; and yet all links with the kasbah were not broken, for we had gone but a short way when a servant ran after us, carrying a familiar dish, known...

Ah! Moon of my delight, who know'st no wane The Moon of Heaven is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same garden after me--_in vain!_

The vague and hazy ideals which the white light of an English upbringing relegates to dreamland and dismisses as idle fancies, rise up in the glare of African sunlight, alive, t...

WE had not been long at the fonda before the Fast of Ramadhan began. Ramadhan, ordained by Mohammed, takes place in the ninth month of every Mohammedan year, and lasts for twent...

The best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager who finds many. We travel, indeed, to find them. They are the end and the reward of life. The...

PLANS FOR CHRISTMAS AT GIBRALTAR--A ROUGH NIGHT--THE STEAMER WHICH WOULD NOT WAIT--AN IGNOMINIOUS RETURN TO TETUAN--A RASCALLY JEW--THE ABORIGINES AND THE PRESENT OCCUPANTS OF M...

WE LOOK OVER A MOORISH COURTYARD HOUSE WITH A VIEW TO TAKING IT--WE RENT JINAN DOLERO IN SPITE OF OPPOSITION--AN ENGLISHMAN MURDERED--OUR GARDEN-HOUSE--THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF MOO...

PLANS FOR CHRISTMAS AT GIBRALTAR--A ROUGH NIGHT--THE STEAMER WHICH WOULD NOT WAIT--AN IGNOMINIOUS RETURN TO TETUAN--A RASCALLY JEW--THE ABORIGINES AND THE PRESENT OCCUPANTS OF M...

WE LOOK OVER A MOORISH COURTYARD HOUSE WITH A VIEW TO TAKING IT--WE RENT JINAN DOLERO IN SPITE OF OPPOSITION--AN ENGLISHMAN MURDERED--OUR GARDEN-HOUSE--THE IDIOSYNCRASIES OF MOO...