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Aafter dinner I strolled

along the main street, where all the hotels and shops are drawn up at

attention before the lovely mountain In front of one of the shops I saw

a collection of walking sticks and, since I needed one for cli, I

paused to look thelish the sticks

I hadaway to find

the shopkeeper, when the Englishh quite young, and had that well-tubbed

appearance which I alish to assert their authority over colonies like Egypt and India,

where hly bathed

"Er--if you'll pardon me, old chap," he said "Not that stick--if you

don't h for est--"

To say that I was astonished is putting it lish at all, you know it is not their habit to address strangers,

even under the hty race actually interfering inthe one he preferred, and he strolled along withmeantime in a fashion far from British

We stopped at the Kursaal, where we listened to the music, had a drink