St Nicholas [serial] . the differ-ent houses, and milk them at the door in a bowlprovided by each customer. No chance of wateredTvilk there, you see. That is not the queerest part of it, though. As! have said, Italian houses are very high—five, six,jind seven stories often, with a different family1, iving on each floor. Even the palazzos (palaces)I, if the rich arc divided in this way. To the first floor spire in die world), there is an immense dome,whence a most glorious view of the city can behad ; but leading up to it are many scores of stonesteps, too many to climb, so at the foot of these
St Nicholas [serial] . the differ-ent houses, and milk them at the door in a bowlprovided by each customer. No chance of wateredTvilk there, you see. That is not the queerest part of it, though. As! have said, Italian houses are very high—five, six,jind seven stories often, with a different family1, iving on each floor. Even the palazzos (palaces)I, if the rich arc divided in this way. To the first floor spire in die world), there is an immense dome,whence a most glorious view of the city can behad ; but leading up to it are many scores of stonesteps, too many to climb, so at the foot of thesesteps are ciceroni (guides) with little donkeys sad-dled, which carry people safely and easily up to thedome for a few granos apiece. Is not that a novelkind of elevator ? In the afternoon, Guiseppi would go to the bar-bers, to make himself spruce. A curious place itwas, too ; decorated like a church, with an altar inthe center—a real altar, but with brushes, razors,and pomade on it instead of incense ; and out at. ot the ground floor) there are sometimes from »hty to one hundred marble steps leading up. 1 this floor perhaps a duke may live ; on the next ove, some one lower in rank, till it would not be possible that the noble dukes laundress might e in the seventh story of his palazzo. These permost families usually take goats milk, because : goats can go upstairs, even to the very top 3r, and be milked in full view of the customer ! Part of little Paolos pleasure was in patting the it that came up to his grandmothers door, rub- • g its little nose, and giving it roasted chestnuts at. After it was milked, the goat would turn I skip down the stairs so briskly that the milkman .Id not begin to keep up with it. lever animals they have in Italy, I think. At Peters, in Rome (which has the second highest the door hung two large brass basins, instead ofthe red, white and blue painted poles our barbershave for signs. Afterward, he would take Francesca, her mother,and little Pao
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