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Show BEZIHO PABIaV Under the wing of the unrformed guide, attached to one of the tourist agenetes. vou may escape from the dreary round of the aham "gav Parse" with Ita meretricious mere-tricious amusements invented for the satisfaction sat-isfaction of the foreigner, and bearing no relation whatever to the native life of Paris, and visit with profit sights worth seeing, for at least George has a nodding nod-ding acquaintance with the principal museums mu-seums and their most notable treasures-He treasures-He can explain the Obelisk and the Eiffel tower and the Hotel des Invalldea. His information Is often Inaccurate, but It haa the merit of being brief- It Is unneoas-, unneoas-, sary that It should he more accurate or i lengthier than It is. for though he speajca plainly (with a German accent) and In a joud voice the uae of the megaphone la happily forbidden his listeners pay htm. as a rule, but scant attention,. 001114:. like most English people in unusnal surroundings, sur-roundings, mainly preoccupied with the feeling that they are being stared at bv strsngera. to whose uncalled-for Interest (n them they must dlsplav resentment. "Vol ia lbs Cooke" enclslms the Parts-' Ian as he watches the Procession pass-inc pass-inc ranldly along the boulevards. He envies en-vies their well fitting tweed clothes, thlnka the cloth caps which they mostly wear which he calls "jockey" caps, s lit tie diereapectful to the "city of- light, disapproves of their brier pipes, wonders why thev look so solemn and so sad. Sometimes the wild scheme enters - bis head to accompany them, and then, he ts amased at. and expresses rhildstb pleasure pleas-ure with, all he hear a. and sees, snd nest day he writes a wtty letter to the. Figaro to explain that, though a Parisian born and brd. h had never seen Paris, knew totblnr of Paris until he became a "Cook '".-Rowland Strong in Harper's Weekly. |