In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . in the old castle court listening halffearfully for ghostly noises from the banquet halloverhead or the dun- ^^if. geon cells below. When thegreat fair was held at Bibbiena we went to it and bought a green umbrella. When the vintage came we joined the pickers on one of our landlords p o d e r i, where Rowena picked and sang by Concettas side. The Casentino days were wonderfully good days, every one of them. They filled our nostrils and lungs with a tingling air fresh from the mountain forests. They were of the kind that one drea
In and out of Florence; a new introduction to a well-known city . in the old castle court listening halffearfully for ghostly noises from the banquet halloverhead or the dun- ^^if. geon cells below. When thegreat fair was held at Bibbiena we went to it and bought a green umbrella. When the vintage came we joined the pickers on one of our landlords p o d e r i, where Rowena picked and sang by Concettas side. The Casentino days were wonderfully good days, every one of them. They filled our nostrils and lungs with a tingling air fresh from the mountain forests. They were of the kind that one dreams back to in fireside reveries. Someway it is Nature that has the upper handwith one in the Casentino. And yet there are re-wards for the picture hunter. At Stia, in the headof the valley, at Strada on the Solano, and on thehill near Romena are some old twelfth centurychurches. The special interest in them all is thecrude carving of the capitals of the interior support-ing columns. In Stia these capitals bear curiousbeasts with tails wrapped about them, a mer-. The entrance to Poppi Castle. 300 Florentine Excursions maid Eve, and other strange and monstrous the restored and picturesque Chiesa della Pieveabout a half-mile from the gaunt ruin of RomenaCastle are more of these fantastic sculptures, while
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