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A Tramp Abroad

CHAPTER XVI
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It is as succinct as an invoice.

That is what a translation ought to be; it should exactly reflect the thought of the original.

You can't SING "Above wonderfully there," because it simply won't go to the tune, without damaging the singer; but it is a most clingingly exact translation of DORT OBEN WUNDERBAR--fits it like a blister.

Mr.
Garnham's reproduction has other merits--a hundred of them--but it is not necessary to point them out.

They will be detected.
No one with a specialty can hope to have a monopoly of it.


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