In the Tail of the Peacock

The Project Gutenberg EBook of In the Tail of the Peacock, by Isabel SavoryThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: In the Tail of the PeacockAuthor: Isabel SavoryRelease Date: February 7, 2009 [EBook #28016]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN THE TAIL OF THE PEACOCK ***Produced by Michael Ciesielski, the Project GutenbergOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.netand the booksmiths at http://www.eBookForge.netIN THE TAIL OF THE PEACOCKBy ISABEL SAVORY.Author of "A Sportswoman in India" WITH 48 ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHSAND A PHOTOGRAVURE PORTRAIT "The Earth is a peacock: Morocco is the tail of it"Moorish Proverb❦❦ London: HUTCHINSON & CO.Paternoster Row    ❧    ❧   1903 Isabel SavoryIsabel Savory PRINTED BYHAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,LONDON AND AYLESBURY PREFACEThis book contains no thrilling adventures, chronicles, no days devoted to sport. It will probably interest only thoseminds which are content with "the C Major of this life," and which find in other than scenes of peril and excitement theirhearts' desire.Such as care to wander through its pages must have learnt to enjoy idleness, nor find weeks spent beneath the sunand stars too long—that is to say, the ...