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The Innocents Abroad
Part 4 of 6

CHAPTER XL
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One day as the sun went down, they came to the cave in the Mount of Pion, and they said, each to his fellow, Let us sleep here, and go and feast and make merry with our friends when the morning cometh.

And each of the seven lifted up his voice and said, It is a whiz.

So they went in, and lo, where they had put them, there lay the bottles of strange liquors, and they judged that age had not impaired their excellence.

Wherein the wanderers were right, and the heads of the same were level.

So each of the young men drank six bottles, and behold they felt very tired, then, and lay down and slept soundly.
When they awoke, one of them, Johannes--surnamed Smithianus--said, We are naked.


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