"WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND CHARMING, I PRACTICED BABY-FARMING."
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Of the eighty-six miles of the canal, nearly thirty lie through the shallow lakes of Menzaleh, Timsah, and "Bitter Water," the channel being marked by posts or mounds. Its depth is twenty-six and a quarter feet, its mean breadth about seventy, and in the "sidings" nearly one hundred.
[2] Called by the Arabs "Jebel Mousa" (Mountain of Moses).