One niece is also more likely than two to carry a kodak and take interest in it, since she has nothing else, except her uncle, to interest her, and instances occur when she takes interest neither in the uncle nor in the journey. As many more may come as like, but one niece is enough for the uncle to talk to, and one niece is much more likely than two to listen. For convenience of travel in France, where hotels, in out-of-the-way places, are sometimes wanting in space as well as luxury, the nieces shall count as one only. The following lines, then, are written for nieces, or for those who are willing, for those, to be nieces in wish. No valid objection can be offered to this choice in the verse. The relationship, too, is convenient and easy, capable of being anything or nothing, at the will of either party, like a Mohammedan or Polynesian or American marriage. Nieces have been known to read in early youth, and in some cases may have read their uncles. The same objections do not apply to the word "niece." The change restores the verse, and, to a very great degree, the fact.
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