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What it lacked in musical ability it made up in energy.
Why, oh, _why_ at that hour, we never found out. Perhaps it was in
honour of the Princess, poor lady!
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CHAPTER III
OFF TO MONTENEGRO

Back to Nish in the rain, and Jo was wearing a cotton frock. There may
be more dismal towns than this Nish, but I have yet to see them, and
this, although the great squares were packed with gaily coloured
peasants--some feast, we imagined--carts full of melons, melons on the
ground, melons framing the faces of the greedy--cerise green-rind moons
projecting from either cheek. The Montenegrin consul was not at home, so
off we went to the Foreign Office to give a letter to Mr. Grouitch, who
sent us to the Sanitary Department of the War Office (henceforth known
as S.D.W.O.). S.D.W.O. wouldn't move without a letter from "Sir Paget."
We got the letter from "Sir Paget" and back to the S.D.W.O., to find it
shut in our faces, and to learn that it did not reopen till four.
Then came the matter of Jo's tooth.


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