*' * Wonderful country ? *

«' * I should think it was ! *

" * You were there with old Garente ? *

'f * I was, mate ; ' and so on, until at last some other drawer
would ask, * Did you ever cross the Alps ?'

" * Did I ever what ? '

" * Cross the Alps ? '

« i Why, it was a-crossing the Arlps as me and Garente had
the 'ottest adventure of all as occurred to us.'

^* * Tell us about it/ the questioner would say in a spirit of



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inquiry, as if he had not heard the story a hundred times.
Then the. pantomimist would remove his pipe from his lips and
relate his affair with the bandits.
