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with the 27 letters in it. He also say [[says]] some funny things about the [[strikethrough]] ledgen [[/strikethrough]] legands [[legends]] of the Rhine. The one about Lolelie [[Lorelie]] sitting on the rock to lure fishermen to death in particular. If you could see the Rhine you would appreciate the funniness of the idea. The idea of any one being dashed to death in the breakers of the Rhine is charming. One would stand a better chance of being dashed to death in the breakers [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] in the Frog Pond in the Common.

I had a charming time getting to the bank today. I thought I would cut across lots as it were. So I started as I usually do only when I got half way I branched off in the direction I thought it [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] ought to be; whell [[well]] after walking for a good half hour and not seeing any thing that looked natural I concluded that the bold Yankee had missed his reconing for once; so I went 

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back to the starting place and tried it again with no better result. Well by that time my mad was getting up and my sence [[sense]] getting down so went back and tried it once more, this time making up my mind that I would find that bank if I had to spend all the rest of the time I was in Venise [[Venice]] to do it in. Well after much floundering up and down all the little narrow street I finally came to it and I dont [[don't]] believe that in all the time I walked I was more than a quarter of amile [[a mile]] of the old thing. But the streets are so narrow that you cant [[can't]] tell where you are till you come to a square then you take your reconing as it were. Some of them are not more than four or five feet wide and the widest not more than 15 and all as crooked as the crookedist ones in Boston. The other day I was nearly frightened to death when out in the gardens at the end of the city to see a fellow on a horse 

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