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LIFE amongst the cabbages and onions. He returned to Montparnasse in a very battered condition at eight-thirty in the morning. Along the Boulevard Montparnasse was a tramway, and the road between the tram-lines was dug up for repairs, leaving a hole about six feet deep. The red-bearded man felt sleepy and got down the hole and went to sleep. About an hour later the noise of the trams woke him up and he appeared like " Venus rising from the Ocean," and rose up in the middle of the street* Many nice old ladies and their daughters, who were studying Art, were having breakfast on the terrace of the Rotonde and the Dome and were shocked and surprised at this strange sight. Every Friday evening I went to Lavenue's, which 65 F