CAMELS AND DRIVERS IN CAIRO STREET.–There was no end to the variations of scenes presented by the camels and drivers in Cairo Street so often described, but in the actual life of the village never really monotonous. A very patient lot were the camels, else, under the abuse they received, both manual and verbal, they would have often turned upon their masters and beaten them down with their ungainly hoofs. It seemed to be, in his opinion, the duty of each particular driver to refer to his camel when in service, as the lineal descendant of all vile beasts which ever inhabited the continent of Africa, back to pre-historic ages. The camels endured it stoically, as they did also the occasional blows from such  bludgeons as the drivers carried, and it may he said to the credit of the latter that when off duty and discussing matters among themselves in the stables, each insisted that his own particular camel was a pearl above price and the finest beast of any sort in existence. In the illustration the camels are shown caparisoned in preparation for some one of the parades, alleged to be reproductions of the parades which occur in the real Cairo in Egypt. It may be that the bridal procession, which was a daily feature, is what the beasts and their riders are about to engage in.

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