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walk and while walking down a side street we saw a note lowered on a string and one of these blacked cloaked specters grab it and hurry off. All these things reminds one of story books and you can hardly realize that the people are not playing parts. Every thing is a holy day or a fêté this month but the 13 of next month is the grand day and there will be a great time here then. All the squares and canals will be lit up at night and their will music and fire works from one end of the town to the other; a regular Fourth of July, in fact. The officers here are nifty looking chaps and a marked contrast to the pig headed looking things they have in Germany. They usually wear a dark bottle green suit fitting tight with orange or dark red trimmings and swell about in great style. Even the poorer classes of people wear nice shoes and ones that fit them. Our model has a pair of the most stunning ones I have ever seen. As you may have observed I like this place much and also the people they are are so obliging and jolly. We usually have a serenade two or three times a week. A boat load of people comes around and sing under the windows of the hotel. It sounds immense in the water. I received a very nice letter from Frank W. at the summer time and received your last; he writes a very amusing letter. I was very pleased to hear from him. He told me all about his window and said it was all his fault, though he says Henry thinks it was his. We had a very amusing old gent at the table till last night but he acted so that the proprietor of 

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