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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.61635#0178
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absolutely nothing to do. As if glad of an occu-
pation, they gathered around the tricycle and
examined it with their eyes and hands; and while
a waiter in a cafe bestirred himself to overcharge
us, and a man in a cake-shop, with unlooked-for
energy, sold us his stalest cakes, they even went
so far as to roll it up and down to test the tyres.—
Nor was this curious idle crowd to be got rid of
so long as we were in La Charite, and our stay
there was not short ; for as we followed the wind-
ings
absolutely nothing to do. As if glad of an occu-
pation, they gathered around the tricycle and
examined it with their eyes and hands; and while
a waiter in a cafe bestirred himself to overcharge
us, and a man in a cake-shop, with unlooked-for
energy, sold us his stalest cakes, they even went
so far as to roll it up and down to test the tyres.—
Nor was this curious idle crowd to be got rid of
so long as we were in La Charite, and our stay
there was not short ; for as we followed the wind-
ings