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The Lion of Petra, by Talbot Mundy
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Title: The Lion of Petra
Author: Talbot Mundy
Release Date: September 17, 2006 [EBook #19307]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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THE LION OF PETRA
by Talbot Mundy
CONTENTS
I. "Allah Makes All Things Easy!" II. "Trust in God, But Tie Your Camel!" III. "Ali Higg's Brains Live in a Black Tent!" IV. "Go and Ask the Kites, Then, At Dat Ras!" V. "Let That Mother of Snakes Beware!" VI. "Him and Me--Same Father!" VII. "You Got Cold Feet?" VIII. "He Cools His Wrath in the Moonlight, Communing with Allah!" IX. "I Think We've Got the Lion of Petra on the Hip!" X. "There's No Room for Two of You!" XI. "That We Make a Profit from This Venture?" XII. "Yet I Forgot to Speak of the Twenty Aeroplanes!" XIII. "There is a Trick to Ruling!"
CHAPTER I
"Allah Makes All Things Easy!"
This isn't an animal story. No lions live at Petra nowadays, at any rate, no four-legged ones; none could have survived competition with the biped. Unquestionably there were tamer, gentler, less assertive lions there once, real yellow cats with no worse inconveniences for the casual stranger than t