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struck with the peculiar characteristics of the people that I stayed there nearly two weeks and modeled a little figure in wax which I had a box made for and will carry in my hand over the Alps and through Germany and so back to London. This place I speak of is called Chioggia and is a fishing town, in fact the whole business and interest of the town centre around the fishing. The people are quite primitive and do a great many things one only reads about in poetry. For instance the women spin flax cord to make the nets of and they do it as the Ancients did with a distaf [[distaff]] and spindle I modeled a young girl skinning just as I saw 

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her in the street. I will do it large when I get it home.  I start from here for Milan and thence over the Alps sending my baggage through the St Gothard tunnel and walking over. From the moment I leave this place I will be homeward bound as this is the end of my journey - and going back will be done rapidly.  Will lose no time in Germany as the art treasures I have seen already are the most important in the world and seeing Germany and Holland is just for fun. I meet Laskin Mead here every day. He is a fine man but no artist, so every one says. His wife is a Venitian [[Venetian]] and he is on a sort of vacation here.  The Italian Art that is done today is