. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . down. The funda-mental idea is, of course, that the draughtsman dragsthe object which he is drawing away from its position,and transfers it, as we say by the same metaphor,to his paper, as St. Cecilia drew an angel down in Alexanders Feast. A good walk from Dalpe is to the Alpe di Campo-lungo and Fusio. but it is better taken from very favourite path with me is the one leadingconjointly from Cornone and Dalpe to Prato. Theview up the valley of the St. Gothard looking downon Prato is fine ; I give a sketch of it taken f
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . down. The funda-mental idea is, of course, that the draughtsman dragsthe object which he is drawing away from its position,and transfers it, as we say by the same metaphor,to his paper, as St. Cecilia drew an angel down in Alexanders Feast. A good walk from Dalpe is to the Alpe di Campo-lungo and Fusio. but it is better taken from very favourite path with me is the one leadingconjointly from Cornone and Dalpe to Prato. Theview up the valley of the St. Gothard looking downon Prato is fine ; I give a sketch of it taken five yearsago before the railway had been begun. The little objects looking like sentry boxes that goall round the church contain rough modern frescoes, 34 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. representing, if I remember rightly, the events atten-dant upon the crucifixion. These are on a small scalewhat the chapels on the sacred mountain of Varalloare on a large one. Small single oratories are scat-tered about all over the Canton Ticino, and indeed • f V ^ ■/ ju* - *■■/. PRATO, AND VALLEY OF ST. GOTHARD. everywhere in North Italy by the roadside, at allhalting-places, and especially at the crest of any moremarked ascent, where the tired wayfarer, probablyheavy laden, might be inclined to say a naughty wordor two if not checked. The people like them, andmiss them when they come to England. They some- PRATO. 35 times do what the lower animals do in confinementwhen precluded from habits they are accustomed to,and put up with strange makeshifts by way of substi-tute. I once saw a poor Ticinese woman kneeling inprayer before a dentists show-case in the HampsteadRoad ; she doubtless mistook the teeth for the relicsof some saint. I am afraid she was a little like a hensitting upon a chalk egg, but she seemed quite con-tented. Which of us, indeed, does not sit contentedly enoughupon chalk eggs at times ? And wrhat would life bebut for the power to do so ? We do not sufficientlyrealise the part
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