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INNKEEPERS. 265 most common. It seems to be quite a matter of favour, if by your repeated solicitations you are able to procure a small hanging looking- glass or a towel. It may be that it is expected that you should bring these things with you, and that the rooms are merely let like unfurnished apartments; but this is a practice so very different from what you would have expected, that almost invariably you are put to great inconvenience on the first arrival. It is a great accommodation, however, to find any place of the kind, where you may put up for so short a period, otherwise you would probably be exposed to serious annoyance. It is the possession of the monopoly in this branch of business, which, no doubt, makes these innkeepers so very independent. They are also men of considerable property, and, having their houses in general filled with permanent lodgers, they must care very little for those whose visit is likely to be so short. Having procured the water, your man comes up to you and asks whether " You catchee dinner ?" And, upon your answering in the affirmative, he tells you the hour at which the company meet at the table d'hote, and then walks out of the room. This is all very well Vol. r. N 266 FINDING A SERVANT. until you want him again, when, as there is no bell, you go outside and look about for him; but probably he is quite at the other end of the building. It is in vain that you try to make the people loitering about understand what you want; they will not budge an inch except for their own particular masters; and you may ramble all over the house before you rind any one who will take any notice of you, except the mau under whose care you are placed. " Nosaavez."" No can saavez," is repeated by every one whom you see, except those who are not eve...