. The adventures of a tropical tramp. Where are you going? He responded in the same language. **Veree well, zank you. Spanish brought better results. He came fromMadrid, where he was a great bullfighter, andwas now on his way to Lima to win fame andfortune. **So am I, I said. **What? Then the senor is also a great bull-fighter T *No; Im a great writer. **But surely, do great writers travel third-class! I explained that nothing I had written hadever been published. *^Ah, the seiior is like me. I have never killedthe bull. The first-class cabins were filled up, but whenthe steamer pulled out int


. The adventures of a tropical tramp. Where are you going? He responded in the same language. **Veree well, zank you. Spanish brought better results. He came fromMadrid, where he was a great bullfighter, andwas now on his way to Lima to win fame andfortune. **So am I, I said. **What? Then the senor is also a great bull-fighter T *No; Im a great writer. **But surely, do great writers travel third-class! I explained that nothing I had written hadever been published. *^Ah, the seiior is like me. I have never killedthe bull. The first-class cabins were filled up, but whenthe steamer pulled out into the Pacific, authorand athlete alone occupied the back deck. Atnightfall we called a steward to inquire wherewe were supposed to sleep, and learned that ourtickets, which read **0n deck, were to be takenliterally. A three days run brought us to the northerncoast of Peru—the driest spot on the WesternHemisphere. To the average American whothinks of South America as a land of tropicalluxuriance, this Peruvian coast is always a sur-. GATU^ LOCKS, PANAMA CANAL ZONE


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