The innocents abroad; . FTPTY-TWO DISTINCT REPETITIONS. I set down fifty-two distinct repetitions, and then the echogot the advantage of me. The doctor set down sixty-four, andthenceforth the echo moved too fast for him, also. After theseparate concussions could no longer be noted, the reverbera-tions dwindled to a wild, long-sustained clatter of sounds suchas a watchmans rattle produces. It is likely that this is themost remarkable echo in the world. 198 A KISS FOR A FRANC, The doctor, in jest, offered to kiss the young girl, and was taken a little aback whenshe said he might for a franc!The
The innocents abroad; . FTPTY-TWO DISTINCT REPETITIONS. I set down fifty-two distinct repetitions, and then the echogot the advantage of me. The doctor set down sixty-four, andthenceforth the echo moved too fast for him, also. After theseparate concussions could no longer be noted, the reverbera-tions dwindled to a wild, long-sustained clatter of sounds suchas a watchmans rattle produces. It is likely that this is themost remarkable echo in the world. 198 A KISS FOR A FRANC, The doctor, in jest, offered to kiss the young girl, and was taken a little aback whenshe said he might for a franc!The commonest gallantrycompelled him to stand byhis offer, and so lie paid thefranc and took the kiss. Shewas a philosopher. She saida franc was a good thing tohave, and she did not careany thing for one paltrykiss, because she had amillion left. Then ourcomrade, always a shrewdbusiness man, offered totake the whole cargo atthirty days, but that little. A KISS FOB A FRANC. financial scheme was a failure. CHAPTER XX. TTXE left Milan by rail. The Cathedral six or seven miles » ? behind ns—vast, dreamy, bliieish snow-clad mountainstwenty miles in front of us,—these were the accented points inthe scenery. The more immediate scenery consisted of fieldsand farm-houses outside the car and a monster-headed dwarf anda moustached woman inside it. These latter were not show-people. Alas, deformity and female beards are too common inItaly to attract attention. We passed through a range of wild, picturesque hills, steep,wooded, cone-shaped, with rugged crags projecting here andthere, and with dwellings and ruinous castles perched away uptoward the drifting clouds. We lunched at the curious oldtown of Como, at the foot of the lake, and then took the smallsteamer and had an afternoons pleasure excursion to thisplace,—B ell aggio. When we walked ashore, a party of policemen (people whosecocked hats and showy uniforms would shame the finest
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