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Three Men on the Bummel

CHAPTER XI
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For him it is that every foreign hotel- and restaurant-keeper adds to his advertisement: "Only those with fair knowledge of English need apply." Did the English-speaking races make it their rule to speak anything else than English, the marvellous progress of the English tongue throughout the world would stop.

The English-speaking man stands amid the strangers and jingles his gold.
"Here," cries, "is payment for all such as can speak English." He it is who is the great educator.

Theoretically we may scold him; practically we should take our hats off to him.

He is the missionary of the English tongue..


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