As the summer advanced my visitors increased." Trippers from many parts of the world—not intentionally—came to see and question, Many made suggestions, It was even hinted that my valuable services might be more advantageously employed in Egypt or Crete, and I soon found that such remarks foreshadowed a long and boring dissertation on Egypt and Crete, I would then humbly express the desire to carry on unaided my own little "dig" and that alone, but this sometimes failed to move them on. They would stand on the edge of the pit and knock down tons of earth and chalk on top of me, or their beastly dogs would run off with my precious Roman bones, only to be retrieved with the greatest difficulty, At another time a fond father, leading his "four-year-old" by the hand, asked me to explain to his off-spring exactly what I was doing! Fortunately the mother coming up at that moment, and not liking either my face or my figure, hastily removed her precious one before I had time to put my thoughts into words,
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