Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . The Palazzo del Podesta— the Tower of the Clock bits from a silk hat, and the pair startedfor a trip around the town. The tunethey played was a little thing of theirown, but the Pied Piper of Hamelin didnot meet with a more generous a quarter of an hour the gathering wasmost gratifying, and, to judge by ourlimited acquaintance, highly representa-tive. The small guide and his English-speaking friend sat on the shafts of thewagon; Pomonica, in a clean apron,hovered about preserving order, whileSam, in a red cap, stood f
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . The Palazzo del Podesta— the Tower of the Clock bits from a silk hat, and the pair startedfor a trip around the town. The tunethey played was a little thing of theirown, but the Pied Piper of Hamelin didnot meet with a more generous a quarter of an hour the gathering wasmost gratifying, and, to judge by ourlimited acquaintance, highly representa-tive. The small guide and his English-speaking friend sat on the shafts of thewagon; Pomonica, in a clean apron,hovered about preserving order, whileSam, in a red cap, stood from start tofinish with his nose against the lamp. The remainder of the evening was oneto be taken through half-shut eyelids,with only an occasional uplifting whenDomenicas father bought a blue andpurple bedspread, and Sams mother. The Villa della Madonna on the Eastern Wall entered into a war of words with the si-gnorina over a table-cover, from the centreof which Italys martyred king- gloweredmost reprovingly. The crowd rocked withlaughter at the jests of the auctioneer, thegirls hugged up to their sweethearts, evenhusbands laid protecting hands upon theshoulders of their wives and boughtlargely, while the children, mindful of thenecessity of well-curbed emotion, madeflying trips to the far corners of thesquare to emit whoops of pent-up donkey-carts drew up to enjoy thefray, and a herd of belated goats camein from the point of the iron, and stood like foolish carven images, while the littleherdsman lingered on the outskirts. Thelight was acetylene, but the scene that itillumined was of the days of the Guelphsand the Ghibellines, when spite-towerswere the fashion, and the spite-fence wasas foreign as the land from which itrises. By eleven, the square was left tothe black shadows and the white moon,an
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