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"peat." That was as far as I could get with then. There was no nam- 
ing them guess what I muted in reference to a pout. So I saia r, much- 
as gracias" (net that I thonght it was Italian, "but I ted to say some 
thing »? and kept en hunting fer a bridge and eventually found ene. I 
was thinking of that remarkable Medici nose as 1 wandered throurh the 
dirty little alleys when, happening to glance at a particularly dirty 
woman with vegetables, I gasped t© see that nese on her face. Then it 
occurred te me that it was net remarkable that there sheuld he Medici 
hlood in Florence, even if the family has died out. I began looking 
for these noses and counted 6 en my way to the hotel, enly pronounced 
cases counted. At the hetel I inq.ui»ed the way. te the Botanical Gar- 
den. With a little map the hotal gives its guests I started out te 
find it. The way led me past the Suao, cathedral and campanile (I 
don't know what Dueme means). They look like the sort of thing a 
child builds with oolered btilding blocks, black and white and pink, 
making a sort of quilt pattern. It did net impress me as beautiful nor 
dignified. The streets were swarming with soldiers and at Plaza 
|t«ftit Cavour they were drilling. I went ©n and en and on and fin- 
ally turned back and entered a horticultural garden of the Tuscany 
Hert society. There I asked a workman (they were working en Sunday) 
and he directed me te a Tory different place, Via la Marmora. That I 
saw from the name en the gate was the right place, so I shall waste 
no time in the morning lokking for it. Keturning I went into the 
cathedral. It had a let mere pictures of the old master style, net 
quite so bad as in the galleries, though. The best thing about it 
was its coolness— at last I was warm, decidedly so in my winter flan- 
nels, and it was delightful te stay in the dim cathedral a while. 
My trunk had net been brought ever. I had been to the station in the 
morning, supposing it to be ah©ther case like Munich, waiting te be ex- 
amined. 1 explained that it had net been **■ <? •?* gg^eS 
^at- esse' it was* h*ld af the "frontier ,-I w«s.txad. _l 
