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willing to wait in the open air, as it was drizzling, 

 snowing and cold, but I thought it was not proper to 

 stand in such place without taking something, so I 

 asked for " a glass of leer" only those four words. 

 I must have pronounced them in a queer way, or the 

 bar-tender was dull enough. Anyhow he took a small 

 bottle (the contents of which did not look like beer to 

 me) and filled up a large glass. I took the glass with 

 one hand and handed a silver coin with the other. I for- 

 got if it was 10 cents or more or less, I think it was 

 Spanish or Mexican money. He took it and did not 

 give me any change. I tasted the would-be-bee? but I 

 could not drink it. It was as bitter as Aloe to my 

 taste, so I put my glass on the bar again, and all the 

 time he looked at me but I did not say a word nor he 

 either, but from his look, if he had spoken, I think he 

 would have said : " What sort of a fool are you ? You 

 ask for a drink, you pay for it and you do not drink it, 

 nor say a word whether you find it bad or not. I would 

 have asked but I could not manage to find words to 

 ask him what sort of medicine he had given me. The 

 train had arrived so I went down and got in the 

 car. I do not think there was more than one person 

 and myself in the car. In a few minutes the conductor 

 came and asked me my fare without speaking, I could 

 understand his pantomime, so I handed him one dollar 

 bill of those dirty looking bills. He looked at it, shook 



