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Pirates in Tunis and a Wildcat at Sylvan Lake
A travel sketch notes a guide Okba likened to a Barbary pirate with a refined pose who tricks an English family in Tunis. A bey’s son impersonation ends in prison after a three year sentence. Also recounted is a Sylvan Lake hotel manager taming a wildcat kept as a pet and Hull city’s lone municipal telephone system.
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Barbary
Mediterranean
Willard Price
Okba
Tunis
Bey of
Hae Wildcat
Bylvan Lake
South Dakota
Sylvan Lake Hotel
Lake
Hull
Great Britain
Eaglish