Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . now-crowned Soracte reddening in the sunrise, andthen just below the window to watch an Italian shepherd,clad in goatskin trousers, thick cape, and slouch hat, with along staff in his hand, followed by a shaggy black dog, comeslowly up the mountain path. He is bringing some goatsmilk cheese. Near Naples the peasants do extensive market gardeningand come into the city in the early morning cracking theirlong whips and urging their donkeys with a long-drawnA-a-a-a-a-h! The two-wheel carts are piled high withcauliflower or to
Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . now-crowned Soracte reddening in the sunrise, andthen just below the window to watch an Italian shepherd,clad in goatskin trousers, thick cape, and slouch hat, with along staff in his hand, followed by a shaggy black dog, comeslowly up the mountain path. He is bringing some goatsmilk cheese. Near Naples the peasants do extensive market gardeningand come into the city in the early morning cracking theirlong whips and urging their donkeys with a long-drawnA-a-a-a-a-h! The two-wheel carts are piled high withcauliflower or tomatoes and perhaps lemons and oranges people are industrious and thrifty and by sheer hardwork they make their terraced gardens into marvels of fer-tility. But they are illiterate, rent-racked, and meek beforetheir haughty landlords. The famous Atmlfi-Sorrento roadway skirts the blue seaat the base of mountain cliffs which are terraced and culti-vated from top to bottom. Every inch is utilized, irregularstone fences marking the boundaries. On one terrace are. ASTOR, FOUNOA IONS ITALIAN LIFE IN ITALY 53 Sirs sira i::=t SIS Xud be sufficient to dispel all the super- W thoughtlessly applied to all, is an outrageous one of thePlst painstaking and industnous people 0fTheeo0utdhern peasant is also good-natured and hard-woTking A. harvest time he frequently works «*• hou«riv In most cases he does not live on the land any more„nhisabsent landlord. In old ^J^^tants built their in towns, on «*«L2?3i. A- Wdlv castle for protection. The peasants the e century-old stone huts, dirty and unsamury, megn c d b^boar e, a„d health by indoor life asleep or at^ Though heavy and hard, this outdoor work makes Charles Lapworth, IVi>.« ««»«« ^ 54 SONS OF ITALY or twenty cents a day, but since emigration to America haslessened the supply of laborers, his wages have risen to sixtyor even eighty cents a day. This southern contadino i
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