rashid, 75; ahmed, 4

An’ doze wee han’s so sof’ an’ sweet, / Mates wid dem toddlin’, velvet feet, / Jes to roun’ you out, complete, / Mah ’ittle Touzle Head.
Ray G. Dandridge, ’Ittle Touzle Head

The father looked for a good spot: a patch on the mountainside that was relatively flat, was protected from the wind by a rocky ledge to one side and where the grazing was good. The wadi that eventually leads you up to Birkat Sharaf, the 5-7 hour hike that I'd done in October 2004, would get them water. Now, that issue is made a lot easier by a water tank a short walk away, which in turn is fed by pipes from another one, higher up, on an opposite slope, fed by a water tanker.

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