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The innocents abroad; . R1^,GI^G FOR SOAP. 100 AN AMEKICAN, SIK t I never dine without wine, sir, (wliicli was a painful false-hood,) and looked around upon the company to bask in tlieadmiration he expected to find in their faces. All these airs in a land where they wonldas soon expect to leave tliesoup out of the bill of fareas the wine!—in a landwhere wine is nearly as. common among all ranks WINK SIRl as water! This fellowsaid: I am a free-bornsovereign, sir, an Ameri-can, sir, and I want everybody to know it! Hedid not mention that hewas a lineal descendant ofBalaams ass; but everyb
The innocents abroad; . R1^,GI^G FOR SOAP. 100 AN AMEKICAN, SIK t I never dine without wine, sir, (wliicli was a painful false-hood,) and looked around upon the company to bask in tlieadmiration he expected to find in their faces. All these airs in a land where they wonldas soon expect to leave tliesoup out of the bill of fareas the wine!—in a landwhere wine is nearly as. common among all ranks WINK SIRl as water! This fellowsaid: I am a free-bornsovereign, sir, an Ameri-can, sir, and I want everybody to know it! Hedid not mention that hewas a lineal descendant ofBalaams ass; but everybody knew that withouthis telling have driven in the Prado—that superb avenue borderedwith patrician mansions and noble shade-trees—and havevisited the Chateau Boarely and its curious museum. Theyshowed us a miniature cemetery tliere—a copy of thefirst graveyard that was ever in Marseilles, no doubt. Thedelicate little skeletons were lying in broken vaults, and hadtheir household gods and kitchen utensils with them. Theoriginal of this cemetery was dug up in the principal streetof the city a few years ago. It had remained there, only twelvefeet under ground, for a matter of twenty-five hundred years,or thereabouts. Romulus w^as here before he built Rome, andthought sometliing of founding a city on this spot, but gaveup the idea. He may have been personally acq
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