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The Innocents Abroad
Part 6 of 6

CHAPTER LIV
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It is hopeless, but then it is hard to break habits one has been eighteen hundred years accustomed to.

The old tourist is far away on his wanderings, now.

How he must smile to see a pack of blockheads like us, galloping about the world, and looking wise, and imagining we are finding out a good deal about it! He must have a consuming contempt for the ignorant, complacent asses that go skurrying about the world in these railroading days and call it traveling.
When the guide pointed out where the Wandering Jew had left his familiar mark upon a wall, I was filled with astonishment.

It read: "S.

T .-- 1860--X." All I have revealed about the Wandering Jew can be amply proven by reference to our guide.
The mighty Mosque of Omar, and the paved court around it, occupy a fourth part of Jerusalem.


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