The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . rman, but asolde never passes through the handsof a German until it has been well pol-:ished A commotion before the cafe warn-ed us that our cinematographers weredeparting, so we two unostentatiouslytook our way down the Coi^o till wereached the Fontana del women and children were fill-ing their water-jars. One little girl had her apron to hereyes, while at her feet lay the brokenfragments of an amphora. We driedher tears with a few pennies andturned down a lane leading to theconvent. A doorw
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . rman, but asolde never passes through the handsof a German until it has been well pol-:ished A commotion before the cafe warn-ed us that our cinematographers weredeparting, so we two unostentatiouslytook our way down the Coi^o till wereached the Fontana del women and children were fill-ing their water-jars. One little girl had her apron to hereyes, while at her feet lay the brokenfragments of an amphora. We driedher tears with a few pennies andturned down a lane leading to theconvent. A doorway in the substantial stonewall admitted us to a paved courtyardsurrounded by beautiful the courtyard and through ahallway, then down a flight of stepsand we were in the fragrant gardens,where roses of every kind and huegrew on bushes, trees and hedges,forming one blazing mass of colour,or tMined overhead in arches beneathwhich we walked to the gravelled ter-race, where we seated ourselves by thebalustrade overlooking Etna and thesea. The photographers were here before. Ih-awing by Estelle M. Kerr ••AT HER FEET LAY THE BROKEN FRAi;>AX AMPHORA 192 THE CANADIAN MAGAZINE us and had set up their instruments,whiJe the peasants whom we had seenin the Leatro Greco now took up theirpositions to dance the tarantella. In Sicily one raxely sees the tar-antella danced by women. It is us-ually performed by boye, whose move-ments are certainly more lithe andgraceful than those of the women ;but their gailv-coloured costumes add-ed greatly to the beauty of the sceneas they danced there in the sunlightcheckered by the shadows from theorange-trees and palms, kicking upwhite duet fiom the gravel, with theirbare or sandalled feet. The balus-trade with its pots of flowers formedthe background, and far in the dis-tance the snow-capped summit ofEtna gave the final touch of beautyto the whole. Amongst the dancers were two child-ren, a girl and a boy not more thaneight years ol
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