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Travellers have told us – though unquestionably
through mistake. – Travellers however have told us, of a nation of savages to stupid, that
their utmost knowledge of numbers extends
not beyond three. Of the number of any greater
multitude, be inquired after, the hairs of the
head are pointed to as the representative of it.
Catch Yarnee Yahmee? – how many places of Worship?
is a question that, in a Turkish town upon
the Danube (which being marked as bid a
village in the map had surprised me by its
magnitude) I take I took the liberty of addressing to
the great man of the place the head Chief
Officer of the Revenue – "Chuck – with a significant
toss of the head – Chuck was the answer
– plenty. This was all the Chancellor
of the Exchequer Of Ruszug knew, or seemed
to think it worth his any body's while to know, about the
matter. The degree of information, how or
apposite so were to Turkish intelligence, is
unfortunately not peculiar to Turkish ground. Come back
to England – address yourself to those who
undertake to feed the hungry – feed them
in the and with or without means a mass, – feed them in a new stile – and as it
were with Manna from the clouds – ask them how many
mouths there are to feed –
Chuck – is still the answer: – chuck – is the
sum of knowledge.
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