ABSTRACT
In propo'l'tion to the (length of) thy garment stretch out thy legs.
Accommodate thyself to the circumstances in
which t110U art placed. To stretch out one's leg beyond the cloak, 80 that any part of it should appear, is" reckoned highly indecent and unmannerly among respectable persons in Eastern society. Before a superior the man who sits cross-legged must en· deavour to hide even his feet and toes, in fact he must show no part of his body but the face. In the Egyptian dialect JJ is often used. for
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18 the woman who washes the corpses of females previously to interment.
