. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . therewas only a shell remaining ; the rest of the buildinghad evidently been burnt, even the wing in which thepresent proprietor resides being, if I remember rightly,modernised. The site, however, and the slopingmeadows which the castle crowns, are of extremebeauty. I now walked down to San Giorio, and found a smallinn where I could get bread, butter, eggs, and goodwine. I was waited upon by a good-natured boy, theson of the landlord, who was accompanied by a hawkthat sat always either upon his hand or shoulder. AsI looked at
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . therewas only a shell remaining ; the rest of the buildinghad evidently been burnt, even the wing in which thepresent proprietor resides being, if I remember rightly,modernised. The site, however, and the slopingmeadows which the castle crowns, are of extremebeauty. I now walked down to San Giorio, and found a smallinn where I could get bread, butter, eggs, and goodwine. I was waited upon by a good-natured boy, theson of the landlord, who was accompanied by a hawkthat sat always either upon his hand or shoulder. AsI looked at the pair I thought they were very muchalike, and certainly they were very much in lovewith one another. After dinner I sketched the castle. 152 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. While I was doing- so, a Gentleman told me that a largebreach in the wall was made a few years ago, and apart of the wall found to be hollow ; the bottom of thehollow part being unwittingly removed, there fellthrough a skeleton in a full suit of armour. Others,whom I asked, had heard nothing of S. GIORIO—COMBA DI SUSA. Talking of hawks, I saw a good many boys withtame young hawks in the villages round about. Therewas a tame hawk at the station of S. Ambrogio. Thestationmaster said it used to go now and again to thechurch-steeple to catch sparrows, but would always S. AMBROGIO. 153 return in an hour or two. Before my stay was overit got in the way of a passing train and was run over. Young birds are much eaten in this houses and barns, not to say the steeples of thechurches, are to be seen stuck about with what looklike terra-cotta water-bottles with the necks or three may be seen in the illustration onpage 149 outside the window that comes out of theroof, on the left-hand side of the picture. I have seensome outside an Italian restaurant near are artificial birds-nests for the sparrows tobuild in : as soon as the young are old enough theyare taken and made into
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