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West Coast Times, Issue 10672, 28 December 1897, Page 2

A Vienna humorist; Po'etzi, has described Mark Twain as blpcking traffic on the cana,!- bridges while he observed life in Vienna,, Tjw.ain! J explained)hat he did .nbt'frecjjjjient'eSe br^ges (for that purpose at all, but for sbmei^g • veryV'diffierent. ' He found the rails of bridges very convenient for the perusal of good long GermaD sentences. He gummed the first part of a separable verb on to one end of the , bridge rail, and the seconfl part to, the other end. Then he comfortably spread; out the interminable body of the sentence between. This gave him an opportunity for taking in a German sentence at a glance almost."

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