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“...DANIEL DE LEONOUR COMRADE. 99
fun at or pretended to attempt to learn the languages he
could not understand. His excursion into Hungarian did not
go far. In his block on Avenue A. was an Hungarian grocery
store, the pretty little lady of which he was very anxious to
greet in her mother tongue. Most unwisely, however, he
choose for his tutor a young wag, a student friend of hisson
Well instructed, he started off and said his polite Good
morning in what must have been very good Hungarian, for
the dear lady at once snatched up an apple with each
hand and made a threatening gesture, then, seeing his aston-
ished expression, she burst out in rippling laughter, and, to
quote De Leon himself, All my Hungarian oozed out of me
by all my pores and I never made an attempt at that villain-
ous language again.
With the Swedish he succeeded far better. Having very
serious and most patient instructors, he actually managed to
acquire the use of four words quite accurately, both with...”
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“... to be regarded as the teacher, and told me (and
ie Leon's tutor while
the latter was his associate editor. A few years later, at a...”
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