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at 1 in tli© morning. I saw a hotel nearby, so went over and 
asked for the use of a room to wash up (It seemeli so easy to 
speak German again). When 1 said I had traveled all night and 
all day and was going hack at 1 in the morning, the kingly woman 
asked if I did not want to lie down, that she would call me. I 
gladly took the room for the evening and lay down on a sofa, after 
giving her all the Austrian money I had left except a little to 
do next day for breakfast on the train. That sleep of four or 
five hours enabled me to enjoy the return journey across the 
Tyrol again, The train was not crowd a# this time. I reached 
Florence eh out 11 p* m. and left for Piia early in the morning* 
- — "?isa t Sunday # May 14. — H«a is urikiag up for Florence* 
lot even Wieners could he nicer than the people at the Or to Bot- 
anico here* Prof # Longo is in Rose* An assistant 'who does not 
epesfe such more French than 1 do Imew 1 was to' come and wanted 
to 803 grass es. Shortly after I got started ©ignora Longo came 
in (they had evidently called her.) She could understand my 
written French and was ever so nice. She did not speak much 
trench either. By way of apology I said I had had to speak Ger- 
man for several weeks and it had driven French out of my head. 
Soon after that came rof . Puooinni (if I have his name right) 
and hogan to speak German — oh, hut it sounded good, (t recall 
what you said of how good German sounded to you after you got 
hack to Germany from Russia. ) I had shown them all my copy of 
Raddl hut it meant nothing ot them. Prof. Puccinui exclaimed that 
it was "sohr s el ten,'' and then he discovered Prof. Caruel 1 s writ- 
ing and that our copy had boon Caruel ' s . He got quite excited 
over it and showed the others, who wera impressed with Garuel 
when they hadn't been with Kaddi. I didn't let on VjL never 
heard of Garuel . Prof. Puce inn i understood at once what I was 
