And so the customary quarrel went on. When the sun was fairly down, weslipped back to the hotel in the charitable gloaming, and went to bedagain. We had encountered the horn-blower on the way, and he had triedto collect compensation, not only for announcing the sunset, which wedid see, but for the sunrise, which we had totally missed; but we saidno, we only took our solar rations on the "European plan"--pay for whatyou get. He promised to make us hear his horn in the morning, if we werealive.
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