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for Italy and retirn and eater Ooraaay in another place tho nan acted 
as if ho had never hoard of such presumption. (What do they run 
their boundries lik© a gerrymander for?) Ho said I would have to 
haw® two visas at HO eachi Then I handed him the Dept. of Agricul- 
ture letter ©f introduction, and told him I had another and bigger 
one with g gold seal on it, if ho wanted r*e -to bring it. He sent us 
to another office, and after filling out ray pedigree and where I was 
on and after Aug. 1, 1914, and waiting and waiting, with Fran Schneider 
explaining that I was a Staatsboaiite to the various officials, w© were 
sent hack. with a note ;© tho first man who said there was niehts %n 
besahlen. He wasn't a hit goodnaturod ah out it, hut I was, and sail 
"Dank© vorbindliehet." I was only trying to get out of the second 
payment of $10, I thought I would have to pay for one, I couldn't 
have done it hut for Fram Schneider, I couldn't understand enough of 
what he said. It took nearly all the morning, I had to leave it and 
ooao hack in the afternoon for it. I did not go hut sent the dinner 
for it next day, We went to Cook's hut they are not soiling tickets. 
I rot list* of hotels in Florence, Pisa and Munich. At the railway 
office I had to buy a timetable — and they wouldn't tell me when the 
trains left, either? But tho Xujrsbuch is worth the £00 kronen (about 
5 cents) I paid— though it is more puzzling to work out than an Amer- 
ican timetable, because there is a break at the frontier and" you have 
to hunt far and wide to find the connection in the next country. And 
I could not buy the ticket until I worked out the time my train wont. 
The diener got the ticket and a platgfeart for no next day, I leave 
her® at 8:50 Thursday, got to Volklemark at 15 s and go to Attersee on 
the electric car. Sunday I leave 7. at 10:42 and reach Munich at 
17:50. This scheme of 24 hours a day isn't bad, there is no Mistaking 
sorning and afternoon, as is possible with two sots if 12, I had 
another glimpse of how well off the Schneiders are. J noticed about 
