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The first step is to make an incision in the trunk, then they strip off a narrow bit of bark below the hole, so as to make a receptacle in which the milky juice, the spuma pinguis of Pliny, can lodge and harden. Then the incision is deepened, and after seven days they return to collect what are, by that time, quite big tears of frankincense, larger than an egg.
However that might be, he was very amusing; and as we cared nothing for the police, we not only endured but we encouraged his visits, which was not hard to do in view of his passion for poncio spongato and spuma di latte. On his entrance one evening, a member of our party asked him who was the woman with whom he had met him that morning. "My wife, signore," answered the Italian.
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