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There is nothing like a walking-trip for gathering information of this kind. The Italian went on to explain that this country was a poor substitute for the "ol-a country." "This country rough country. In this country me do rough-a work," he explained apologetically; "in Pal-aer-mo do polit-a work." And he accentuated his statement by a vicious side spit upon the American soil.
The banks of Acheron can not be more wildly funèbre, and it was companionable to hear Colin's voice mimicking out of the darkness: "In this country me do rough-a work. In Pal-aer-mo do polit-a work!" "Poor chap!" I said, after a pause, thinking of our friend from Pal-aer-mo. "Do you know Hafiz, Colin?" I continued. "There is an ode of his that came back to me as our poor Italian was talking.
It transpired that the "polit-a work" on which he had been engaged in Pal-aer-mo had been waiting in a restaurant. And so the poor soul chattered on, touching, not unintelligently, in his absurd English, on American politics, capital and labour, the rich and the poor.
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