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more comfortable days for now he is wheezy near sighted and asthmatical - He speaks all languages was a sailor, now a peddler of shoes, and a smuggler -
He ate at noon with me in the Cafe' always cut his food finely and shoveled it into his wrinkled toothless visage with [[crossed out]] and [[crossed out]]an old jack knife.  The coat that he wears is fifty years old.  I have seen his photo take when thirty, and this same velvet coat on his shoulders.  You can realize my pleasure with such a type.  He insists on acting as my valet brushing my coat and hat regulating the fire for his own comfort, but in the afternoons with a smile we change places, I becoming as he says nurse for he takes a nap each [[crossed out]] day [[crossed out]] afternoon.  You'd be convulsed to see this old man calmly sleeping on my couch, wake up and prepare tea