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machinery of his tale is clear in his own mind. 

 And I confess that I know not how the two 

 boys raised the money with which to pay their 

 preliminary expenses. You may support your- 

 self, as Oliver Goldsmith did, by a flute or a 

 fiddle, you may depend upon the benefactions 

 of unknown kind hearts in a strange land, but 

 the steamship company and the railway com- 

 pany must be always paid beforehand. Where 

 did the passage-money come from ? Nay, as 

 you will learn presently, there must have been 

 quite a large -bag of money to start with. 

 "Where did it come from? The other boy 

 the unknown the innominatus doubtless 

 found that bag of gold. 



They got to Dover and they crossed the 

 Channel, and they actually began their journey. 

 But I know not how far they got, nor how 

 long a time, exactly, they spent in France 

 about a week, it would seem. They very 

 quickly, however, made the humiliating dis- 

 covery that they could not understand a word 

 that was said to them, nor could they, save by 

 signs, make themselves understood. Therefore 

 they relinquished the idea of walking to 



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