Chapter VI

Village Life. Business. The Palestine peasant as a worker. Page 130.
Farming the first business of the village. The
transition from the life of the nomad to the life of the
peasant. Fellaḥîn. Land holdings and titles. Farming
rights. Crops and sowing, work animals and their
management, care of the standing crops, tares, mists,
simultaneous reapings, harvest-time, threshing and
cleaning. Grape season, vineyard districts, use of the
fruit, raisins, export trade in raisins, care of
vineyards, watch-towers in vineyards and orchards. The
olive crop and its care. Flocks of sheep and goats, the
young, varieties, the shepherd. The wool business and
kindred industries, spinning and weaving. Undeveloped
agricultural possibilities. The village market, shops,
stores, bargaining and trade customs, measures and
weights, currency, accounts, money-lending, village
crier, the go-between, the shaykhs in business capacity.
Transport and travel in the country, roads and vehicles.
Stone and building trades, the materials and the tools.
Miscellaneous trades, peasants in the city for business
or for hire, dealers in antiquities and their ways.

CHAPTER VII

Village Life. Social privileges and customs. The elements Page 158.
that contribute to these, kinship, religious
association, party traditions, proximity. Predominance
of kinship as a factor. The influence of religion as a
factor. Diversions of the peasant, conversation and the
amenities, calling and calls. Greetings, salutations,
colloquial address, business talk and discussion.
Guest-house and its uses, coffee-making, food for
guests. A roofing-bee. Play, games, celebrations.
Hunting. Gipsies. Quarrels as an anti-social and social
factor. Revenge, etc.

CHAPTER VIII

Village Life. Intellectual matters. The state of learning, Page 170.
revival, services of the press in the Levant. Education,
schools, missionary influence. Languages heard in the
country, native and foreign. The peasant’s pride in his
mother tongue. The Arabic language, its beauty and
symmetry, literature, dialects, idioms, colloquialisms,
exclamatory remarks, gestures, curses, proverbs.

CHAPTER IX

Village life in the concrete. Description of actual Page 187.
villages, Râm Allâh and el-Bîreh.

CHAPTER X

Village life in the concrete, continued, with some village Page 213.
environs. Eṭ-Ṭîreh, Khullet el-‛Adas, ‛Ayn ‛Arîk, Kefr
Shiyân, ‛Ayn Ṣôba, Baytîn, Khurbet el-Moḳâtîr, Dayr
Dîwân, eṭ-Ṭayyibeh, Jifnâ, ‛Ayn Sînyâ, Bîr ez-Zayt,
‛Âbûd, Mukhmâs.

CHAPTER XI

The village in its external relations. Attitude of Page 225.
villagers to the city and city people, now and formerly.
Administration of the village from the city. The peasant
and the government, taxes, private and official
settlement of disputes. Postal service, native and
foreign, telegraph. Passage of news and rumor. Travel,
hindrances, quarantines, coastwise shipping, railway
travel, peasant travel, pilgrimage travel, Russian
pilgrims and the peasantry, other European pilgrim
parties, tourists, traveling passes, transference of
parcels, baggage, money, banking, consular service, the
desire of the natives to emigrate.