. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph Pisa : the Four Fabrics Minor Travels. i Pisa AM afraid that the talk of the modernrailway traveller, if he is honest, must bea great deal of the custodians, the vetturini,and the facchini, whose acquaintance con-stitutes his chief knowledge of the popu-lation among which he journeys. We do not nowadayscarry letters recommending us to citizens of the differentplaces. If we did, consider the calamity we should be tothe be-travelled Italian communities we now bless ! Xo,we buy our through-tickets,
. Italian journeys / by Howells ; with one hundred and three illustrations by Joseph Pisa : the Four Fabrics Minor Travels. i Pisa AM afraid that the talk of the modernrailway traveller, if he is honest, must bea great deal of the custodians, the vetturini,and the facchini, whose acquaintance con-stitutes his chief knowledge of the popu-lation among which he journeys. We do not nowadayscarry letters recommending us to citizens of the differentplaces. If we did, consider the calamity we should be tothe be-travelled Italian communities we now bless ! Xo,we buy our through-tickets, and we put up at the hotelspraised in the hand-book, and are very glad of a littleconversation with any native, however adulterated he beby contact with the world to which we belong. I do notblush to own that I love the whole rascal race whichministers to our curiosity and preys upon us, and I am 220 5talia n 3 o u cu e \: s
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