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omnibus. 33a & Chestnut is nothing to it. Cabs so thick we could hardly get between them to get to our 'bus and we had to do it four times before they' got to our number. The people stand in hordes on the side walk at the [[Klinajsal?]] stations waiting their everlasting turn and the omnibus's came up one after the other and in the din you hear the everlasting - "deux places on [[en]] haut, trois places en bas" "complet" - "Une en haut" - "quatre places interieure" and the numbers [[?]] [[?]]. The other day while I was waiting with the rest on the edge of the curbstone at the Madeleine Station a Cab-man drove slowly by in front of us standing in a long forlorn row and as he passed he held up two fingers and sang out with curb-poignant irony - "Deux places en l'interieure!" and no one laughed but me for surely it was not French but American wit - this letter wont hold a bit more - I wish you would'nt send all the letters I [[?]] mail. It would

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