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One of the characters whom he pretended to have met several times on his trip to Mont Blanc, was a Yankee, whom he named "Phineas Cutecraft." The wink came at the time he introduced Phineas in the Cologne church, and made him say at the end of the sexton's story about the virgins' bones: "Old fellow, what will you take for that hull lot of bones? I want them for my museum in America!"
When the question had been interpreted to the old German, he exclaimed in horror, according to Albert Smith: "Mine Gott! it is impossible! We will never sell the virgins' bones!" "Never mind," replied Phineas Cutecraft, "I'll send another lot of bones to my museum, swear mine are the real bones of the Virgins of Cologne, and burst up your show!" This always excited the heartiest laughter; but Mr.
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