The Channel
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Not once did I hear the word which would be used to apply to beggars:
—Podaem, We grant.
But:
—Daem, We give.
Or, more often:
—Dareem, We present.
The peasants, especially the women, are distressed by the "unsung corpses,"[1] the dead which the fugitives have to bury by the roadside as they go.
In many places the people have told me:
—We said to them,—Give us your corpses. We will put them in their shrouds, sing the service, and bury them as Christians. But they have no time to do anything. They dig the grave the night before and next morning they go on.
The channel softly receives the river into itself.
- ↑ Without the proper funeral service.
