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The retired rurale drove a relentless bargain with a countryman, returning with certain picturesque garments that Overland donned in the back room of the little circus-blue barber shop. The tramp had worthily determined to hold wise and remunerative converse with the first Easterner that "looked good to him." He would make half-truths do double duty.
'The people here wouldn't trouble their heads, only But you understand, Signorina' he dropped his voice a little 'the priests have much power molto, molto! Don Teodoro, the parroco there, it was he founded the cassa rurale. If a contadino wants some money for his seed-corn or to marry his daughter or to buy himself a new team of oxen he must go to the parroco.
Of course, it has been grown in that district for less than a century; but upon soils where it has been a frequent crop, it is already losing much of its coloring properties. Lavergne, Economic Rurale de la France, pp. 250-201.
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