CHAPTER VI.
QUEER SIGHTS
"Would you like to go shopping with me?" said Esther's mother, the next afternoon. "I must buy some things you children will need to carry with you on your visit."
Esther and Miriam jumped up from their play. They were always ready to go shopping. They liked to see the pretty things in the shops.
Esther's mother had made herself ready for her walk by fastening a bright red shawl over her head. She never wore a hat or a bonnet, as do her American sisters.
"We will go to the market first," she told the children. "I wish to buy some fruit."
It was quite a long walk, but there was so much to see on the way, Esther and Miriam did not think of that.
"Do see that drove of donkeys," exclaimed their mother, after they had entered one of the principal streets. "They are laden with goatskins filled with water, I suppose. Listen, children! Their Arab driver is calling to them."