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Show VICTIM OF HIS OWN ERROR American Tourist Really Had No Riaht to Complain of Extortion, Under the Circumstances. "A nibnrpndnr Ilerrlck." said a returned re-turned tourist, "tuld nie In I'nrls that a giKid deal of the so-called extortion no tourists complain about Is due to misunderstandings. "He Instanced be case of o tourist In I'.russels who got on a trnmcar to make the whole Jr-jrney round the exterior boulevards. When the conductor con-ductor nskeil him where he wanted to go he said: " 'Toute le Jomnee. "He thought that this meant. The whole Journey," but It really mennt, 'All day long"; nnd so the conductor, putting him down as an eccentric, gave him 15 tickets nnd charged him 15 francs. "Fifteen francs! What nn extortion! extor-tion! The tourist rom that day on couldn't knock Europe nnd European -trnfters hard enough." |