To The Belgian Belongs The Credit Of Domesticating The Formerly
Ferocious Belgian Hare, And The East Indian Fakir Makes A
Friend
and companion of the king cobra; but it remained for those ingenious
people, the Parisians, to tame the mole,
Which other races have
always regarded as unbeautiful and unornamental, and make a cunning
little companion of it and spend hours stroking its fleece. This
particular mole belonging to the stout middle-aged lady in question
was one of the largest moles and one of the curliest I ever saw.
It was on the side of her nose.
You see a good deal of mole culture going on here. Later, with
the reader's permission, we shall return to Paris and look its
inhabitants over at more length; but for the time being I think
it well for us to be on our travels. In passing I would merely
state that on leaving a Paris hotel you will tip everybody on the
premises.
Oh, yes - but you will!
Let us move southward. Let us go to Sunny Italy, which is called
Sunny Italy for the same reason that the laughing hyena is called
the laughing hyena - not because he laughs so frequently, but because
he laughs so seldom. Let us go to Rome, the Eternal City, sitting
on her Seven Hills, remembering as we go along that the currency
has changed and we no longer compute sums of money in the franc
but in the lira. I regret the latter word is not pronounced as
spelled - it would give me a chance to say that the common coin of
Italy is a lira, and that nearly everybody in Rome is one also.
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