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A Tramp Abroad

CHAPTER I
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The man gave me 43 cents change.
In Frankfort everybody wears clean clothes, and I think we noticed that this strange thing was the case in Hamburg, too, and in the villages along the road.

Even in the narrowest and poorest and most ancient quarters of Frankfort neat and clean clothes were the rule.

The little children of both sexes were nearly always nice enough to take into a body's lap.

And as for the uniforms of the soldiers, they were newness and brightness carried to perfection.

One could never detect a smirch or a grain of dust upon them.


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