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Lesson 41 Do you call that a hat? What kind of shopping does the writer enjoy, do you think? ‘Do you call that a hat?’ I said to my wife. ‘You needn’t be so rude about it,’ my wife answered as she looked at herself in the mirror. I sat down on one of that modern chair with holes in it and waited. We had been in the hat shop for half an hour and my wife was still in front of the mirror. ‘We mustn’t buy things we don’t need,’ I remarked suddenly. I regretted saying it almost at once. ‘You needn’t have said that,’ my wife answered. ‘I needn’t remind you of that terrible tie you bought yesterday. ‘I find it beautiful,’ I said. ‘A man can never have too many ties.’ ‘And a woman can’t have many hats,’ she answered. Ten minute later we walked out of the shop together. My wife was wearing a hat that looked like a lighthouse! Lesson 42 Not very musical What happened when the snake charmer began to play jazz? As we had a long walk through one of the markets of Old Delhi, we stopped at a square to have a rest. After a time, we noticed a snake charmer with two large baskets at the other side of the square, so we went to have a look at him. As soon as he saw us, he picked up a long pipe which was covered with coins and opened one of the baskets. When he began to play a tune, we had our first glimpse of the snake. It rose out of the basket and began to follow the movements of the pipe. We were very much surprised when the snake charmer suddenly began to play jazz and modern pop songs. The snake, however, continued to ‘dance’ slowly. It obviously could not tell the difference between Indian music and jazz! Lesson 43 Over the South Pole How was the plane able to clear the mountains? In 1929, three years after his flight over the North Pole, the American explorer, R.E. Byrd, successfully flew over the South Pole for the first time. Thought, at first, Byrd and his men were able to take a great many photographs of the mountains that lay below, they soon ran into serious trouble. At on