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      ` J       A Hew Idea. &riv%rq in SertiSo, hot tired and dusty, and inquiring for
the la&&e, I91~18 proudly emopted by the h&e&&m, not ki the kitchen cro you night
have expected, b& la' f8ra go ku~pio, + a,solid structure built to witheW the
wear and teas of gemrationa. E+& $8 %ZU8 thati ft,la&ed a pit and wae muito defeituosa
b&Zl& QptB%l to fli&B, Uh&@Sene 638&d pi$& &%ever it iS ;?rQVki%d with tW0 &wtnent8
and is 4 beginning. ;P beiiere ib is +A3 only 'latrine in the villa. Being eince early
youth i@msely intereeted in t&at @ranah of AmriG=- literature, which q be o@ely
desigmted here a0 'tatrise poatry:  X Rav8 list no opportunity es&g~e me to bexme
familiar with the f&at begiim@s of 'a similar literature in BrurPi.1. Noting that some
thing had bee8 writtm on kbe w&U, I &mumnc~ to read md encountered not the efforts
of&buddingpoetrb9ttan8wid~, TMeisahat~-=L
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    Setanbro de Ip.`Zi, foi sol -*~ad&ees8 indispunsavel mMxmmum~ da
    villa do Swdiio, cum a pre tmge dae pessoas aseignuntert *
           4                        and below were the
   n4m80 of twmty me m Among them one e@,nser and ~b$~m3 of note. Hames of
     stiras were not found in the liet.  Investigating tie matter further it wa8
    found that the I&r&m had been constru&xl as a result, of ,popaganda of the C.L.
    and that the imaugusatian had been scheduled by a viagante who had visited the
    pat in Tomes. Ne ijitrre aesured &it the inaiiuration was ti really fostivo occasion
    Witi OBTfeju, mui%.& U&Q da ~J.~.A~TR and stber rfsquisita% for EL successfui feprta.
    We assured the Pntemkente with ail gravity k&tit we were hoaxtil) for the Eyetern of
    official and public fnqurationa but tAut we thought that they should be made more
     liberal and that the ladies should be invited aa we considered the inatailation of
    latrines in this district &s of more -pblic iqort;ince t,hx~ t;ze inet~llation of
    ohurchea schoolpr Fbrid.g:ea roads and other melhoraolantoe. IA fact, f weed so eloquerrt
    that in a mmmnt of TorgstfUness I offered to  come froia Port0 Alegre ia sxnxll
   reatbr of four dqy'~ trFp) corn a senhora to amistis t&e next inaururatian provided
    there were ten cm more new latrines to be inatAl&