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"You don't say so?" said the school-teacher, profoundly impressed. The Scotchman looked like him who digesteth a pill. I decided quickly on my own rôle, and briskly joined the conversation. Fishing up my botany-box and extracting the little flower, "Nothing is more likely when you know the country," I observed. America, I must explain to you, is a country where proportions are greatly changed.
I treasure this specimen, then, as if it had been a rare flower for my botany-box. But the botany-box indeed, how heavy it was growing! The umbrella, how awkward! The sun, how vigorous and ardent! Who ever supposed it could become so hot by half-past eight in the morning? Certainly the ruthless box, which seemed to have taken root on my back, was heavier than it used to be.
Well, I say it again, and I say it with boldness, you can wear a tin botany-box as bravely as a hauberk, and foolish adventures can be pursued equally well on foot. Stout, grizzled and short winded, I am just as nimble as ever in the pretty exercise of running down an illusion.
As I parted from my stout old friend Joliet, I saw him turn to empty the last half of our bottle into the glasses of a couple of tired soldiers who were sucking their pipes on a bench. And again the old proverb of Aretino came into my head: "Truly all courtesy and good manners come from taverns." I grasped my botany-box and pursued my promenade toward Noisy.
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