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238 MARIA BOCCI LA MOINETTE.
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the the scurity soft cheek of grey of nig the hue ht , and of twili farer the g g ht _-entle converted deepens balmy , into as breeze in a rag a , moment that ing wind scarcel , into bends y the fanned ob the
must of creaking destination she , have moaning gained drenched way giants with with of , danger the rain forests , or difficulty exhausted almost , and to the by fati ground noontide gue her . Often p heat lace ,
to take up her , abode in soine small wretched chalet with associates as rude and as wretched as their miserable hovel ; there , affcer
temporary onerous troubled dutiesand rest , experience to re-commence the same the same personal harassing discomforts round . of It
was this approximation , with unlettered ignorance that the daughter of the learned Italian monk probablfelt as her sorest trial . Coarse
and scanty food , rugged roads , inclement y skies , burning suns , and hazardous jings were transient annoyances ; unceasing
intercourse with ourney those who "were incapable of the slightest interchange of ideas , a daily cross . A contemporary writer , Monsieur Pierre
Lecoultre , who , says the Rev . Philip Bridel , " wasfor his compatriots what Nehemiah had been to the Jewssuch ardent zeal did he ever
evince in their welfare , " left in manuscri , pt some details relative to the habits and habitations of the peoplecurious at this day from
the insight it gives into the slender amount , of civilization about the time that La Moinette began her mission of mercy .
The inhabitants , still without other regular employment , were principallwood-cutters and charcoal burners as heretofore , and are
y described as not devoid of good feelings , but literally half savages . Many parts of the year they wandered like modern gipsies over
the forests extending for miles , wild as the creatures whose lair they were invading . Pitching oil some favorable locality for the exercise
of their trade , they soon ran up a rough shed near the trees destined to fall under the axe ; stowed away the few trifling domestic articles
brought from home in the clefts of some adjacent rocks ; collected dried leaves and fern wherewith to form a bed , trunks of trees
doing duty for chairs and tables , and there remained till it became expedient to move elsewhere , when the whole family migrated " without
the impedimenta © f more fashionable travellers . The father , carrying his toolsmarched first . The motherwith a never failing baby ,
came next , , and then followed a troop , of children whooping , and whistling , and singing at the top of their voices , each laden with
some small household Penates in the form of cup , or caldron , or latterdriving before them the patient goat whose milk was their
solitary p , luxury . They had not even spoons with which to eat their pottage ; when domiciled in the village they lived in comfortless
dwellings little superior to barns , lighted by narrow windows without lasswhich opened and shut by latched wooden shutters ; they
had g no garden , s , cultivated no vegetables , and were utterly unac _^ quainted with the most necessary arts of civilized society . By
degrees the superabundance of population , disproportionate to the
means of subsistence , _compelled them to emigrate by whole families
238 Maria Bocci La Moinette.
238 MARIA BOCCI LA MOINETTE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/22/
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