All Over The
Continent You Are Constantly Running Into Men Engaged In All Manner
Of Legitimate And Dubious Callings, Who Somehow Impress You As
Having Served In The Army Of Some Other Country Than The One In
Which You Find Them.
After this man had been chaperoning us about
for some hours and we had stopped to rest, he told a good story.
It may not have been true - it has been my experience that very few
good stories are true; but it served aptly to illustrate a certain
type of American tourist numerously encountered abroad.
"There were two of them," he said in his excellent English, "a
gentleman and his wife; and from what I saw of them I judged
them to be very wealthy. They were interested in seeing only such
things as had been recommended by the guidebook. The husband would
tell me they desired to see such and such a picture or statue.
I would escort them to it and they would glance at it indifferently,
and the gentleman would take out his lead pencil and check off
that particular object in the book; and then he would say: 'All
right - we've seen that; now let's find out what we want to look
at next.' We still serve a good many people like that - not so many
as formerly, but still a good many.
"Finally I decided to try a little scheme of my own. I wanted to
see whether I could really win their admiration for something.
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