Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . iling feather. That, and a cutlass athis side and a brace of pistols in his belt,would have given him wholly the lookof a pirate emeritus who had accepted acivic office on taking his retreat. Theway that he nourished his drumstickswas a liberal education in the art ofdrumming. His great archetype, carvedimmortally on the Pantheon, did notmake a better show at Arcolo. I neverhave been more gallantly drummed intoany town. Still another pretty touch was givento my entry. On the steps of the littleHotel des Bochers I found waiting to
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . iling feather. That, and a cutlass athis side and a brace of pistols in his belt,would have given him wholly the lookof a pirate emeritus who had accepted acivic office on taking his retreat. Theway that he nourished his drumstickswas a liberal education in the art ofdrumming. His great archetype, carvedimmortally on the Pantheon, did notmake a better show at Arcolo. I neverhave been more gallantly drummed intoany town. Still another pretty touch was givento my entry. On the steps of the littleHotel des Bochers I found waiting towelcome me a charming representativeof the race of curious smoke-gray bushy-tailed cats who dwell in are shy and nervous creatures, forthe most part, with a marked dispositionto run away from strangers and with arabbitlike knack of running close to theground. But the pretty personage whomet me at the inn door was abeam withcat friendliness—as was also a peculiarlysweet-natured kitten, too young to knowfear, whom I had the happiness to encoun-. IN THE TWILIGHT YOU MAY SEE AN OLD COUPLE STANDING IN SILENT PRAYER 282 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. ter later on. My purred welcome, evenmore than the drummers gallant drum-ming, gave me at once the feeling ofbeing cordially at home. Mademoiselle the hostess of the Hoteldes Rochers, standing in her own door-way, received me with a shower of was round and trim and well turnedof sixty; with a wealth of oddly rusty
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