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The Tiber in Flood -- Typhoid fever in Rome -- Florence -- A Jew acquaintance -- Drinking in Provence -- Buying _bric-à-brac_ with the Jew -- The _carro_ on Easter Eve -- Its real Origin -- My Jew friend's letters -- Italian _dolce far niente_.
Conceive yourself confronted by a pop-gun, some ten feet in diameter, charged with mephitic vapours and plugged with microbes of typhoid fever. Conceive your sensations when you were aware that the piston was being driven home.