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"Well, Shorsha, about a year and a half after you left us -- and a sorrowful hour for us it was when ye left us, losing, as we did, your funny stories of your snake, and the battles of your military -- they sent me to Paris and Salamanca, in order to make a saggart of me."
"Pray excuse me," said I, "for interrupting you, but what kind of place is Salamanca?"