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Title: Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
Author: R.M. Ballantyne
Release Date: June 7, 2007 [EBook #21729]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished
by R.M. Ballantyne.
CHAPTER ONE.
AN ACCIDENT AND SOME OF ITS CURIOUS RESULTS.
Every one has heard of those ponies--those shaggy, chubby, innocent-looking little creatures--for which the world is indebted, we suppose, to Shetland.
Well, once on a time, one of the most innocent-looking, chubbiest, and shaggiest of Shetland ponies--a dark brown one--stood at the door of a mansion in the west-end of London.
It was attached to a wickerwork vehicle which resembled a large clothes-basket on small wheels. We do not mean, of course, that the pony was affectionately attached to it. No; the attachment was involuntary and unavoidable, by reason of a brand-new yellow leather harness with brass buckles. It objected to the attachment, obviously, for it sidled this way, and straddled that way, and w