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we went around in one of those boat-things—what's-their-names?—gondolas: and Larry wants to live there always, so's he can fish out of the windows."
Larry, appearing over the side just then, spoke for himself.
"Really, you could, you know, Fen. Just hang a line out of the window and catch fishes. An' you'd have to stand on the door-step an' call a boat, 'stead of a taxi. Wouldn't it be fun, though?"
"But tell me all about it," pleaded their cousin, "everything you saw."
"I can't," insisted Sally; "there was such a lot,—lots of old palaces and churches and things,—simply heaps of 'em!"
"Siddereticus could tell me," thought Fen, wistfully.
There followed a week fraught with exciting expeditions ashore for the active members of the party, and with fruitless questioning for Fen, who was forced to
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