Series 03: John Brady Nash letters, January 1914-December 1915 - Page 98
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[Page 98]
[At the top of this and following pages of this letter is the letter M. Not transcribed.]
if he have the capacity, in time come to know his duties and to perform them well. It almost makes me angry. If I am spared to return to Australia I may have some words to speak publicly on the subject in due course.
When looking out my window during the day I saw on the sands a human figure clothed in a white habit and black flowing coat. "Ah Mother M. Bertrand!" was my mental sentence. The Dominican habit is simulated by many Egyptians, who with stately walk pass to & from upon the sands about the pyramids. Should you have chance read this sentence to M.M. Bertrand, thereafter send to me verbatim her remark. It might also amuse M.M. Joseph. A picture of either or both of them comes before my perception when my eye lights upon a procession of Egyptians moving forth with stately walk and slow.
Was it in your letter that I wrote recently about the Egyptian women carrying loads on the head. This is the common way for taking water from place to place. When looking through a graphic of twelve months ago, there were two pictures, – "the Old and the New" –, of Egyptian women; "the old" being she who carried an earthenware jar shaped as a caraffe, the new being a her sister with an ordinary kerosene oil tin. This morning where three women were crossing the sand one had the jar, a second the tin, and the third a basket and