The Backwater of Life Or Essays of a Literary Veteran

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They are too full of information, and are too often anxious to impart it. Sometimes it is not even true. Frederic Locker used to tell of how an unscrupulous traveller narrating his adventures among the Red Indians was cleverly stopped by Lord Barrymore. ' Hid you ever see anything of the Chick-Chows ? ' ' Oh ! a good deal, ' aid Sir Arthur, ' a very cruel tribe, 96 ON CONVERSATION the Chick-Chows. ' 'And the Cherry-Chows, eh?' 'Oh, very much among the Cherry- Chows, ' continued Sir Arthur; 'the... Cherry- Chows were singularly kind to my fellows. ' ' And pray, Sir Arthur, did you see much of the Tol-de-roddy-bow-wows ? ' This was too much for even Sir Arthur. He was rather put out, but the company was re- lieved. Nevertheless, there are modest travellers. I had once a great friend who had travelled all round the world. When almost on his death- bed, he spoke to me on the subject for the first time, with humorous pathos. ' My dear fellow, you will do me the justice, when I am gone, to say that I never told you one word about it.

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