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hold his hands up, cast his eyes down, shake hands 

 with his left hand and always pretend that he couldn't 

 speak English — and certainly he was getting out of it. 

 One day Baron Leonino came to the stable and 

 " Boots " started on him. I saw the Baron's face 

 begin to broaden into a smile when " Boots " said, 

 " Ze gallop your cheval has done zis matin is ze 

 fastest by ze watch we 'ave 'ad for quelques jours. 

 'E 'as eat up and 'e is as fit as a violin." Then Baron 

 Leonino said, " Now suppose you tell me all this in 

 English," and I chipped in, " Why the something, some- 

 thing, don't you tell the gentleman exactly what has 

 happened ? " 



He got some of the stable hands into the way of 

 talking too, and when the shopkeepers and Frenchmen 

 who supplied us with things couldn't understand them 

 *' Boots" said 'they were fools who didn't understand 

 their own language. 



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