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 KABYLE SCHOOLBOYS By Permission

American accent, "Ah, there, mister! I saw you, sir, on the Midway." The speaker had spent six months in Chicago selling Kabyle jewelry at the World's Fair. Members of the rising generation politely speak to us in excellent French. One little boy who served us as a guide displayed such a knowledge of geography and the simple sciences as to excite our wonder. "Where," we asked him, "have you learned so much? Your taleebs who teach you to read the Koran in the mosque know nothing of these things." "No," he replied, "the taleebs do not know as much as I, for I go to the French school. I'll take you there, it is not far;" and a moment later we were in the midst of a group