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FBOM NAPLES TO POMPEII. 317
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had I can some _scarcel difficulty y expect in the believing statemen what t to I be most credited unquestionabl , as even y I
saw . Vehicle after vehicle of this description rattled past
usin priest children full , activity eon all t shaken adina as , up it young was together - , difficu old , keep , m lt iddle ing matt - u aged r calcula to , coun men ti t , g up energ w omen t ies he ,
apparently Y u oung heads" boys o dus f were whic t , the h we ordinar ob had ject y usual as occu at p y t he but ts ti me f a th passing e ne our ts visi , t g limpse t whom there .
we had re unknown t been a luxuries drop of . Then in , for along six mon the ths sides , and of wa the ter- road carts
blue we ever -blac k hair anon mos cau t g li ht kel sig ht of t dishevelled ledistaff in figure hand with to
remind one of , the " good y old days ang " when , the marvels , of
niachinery all the were old women yet to be tha invented t I noti . Very and a haggish t looking of were greamany
them were visible both at Resina and , Portici and in their . environsbut on our return I discovered from the direction of
were one of gen my ; erall com y t p anions be foun ' g lances gazin , g tha down t the upon youn passers ger and -b prettier y from
upper windows . Little dirty boys , with glorious eyes and very p lay ten in g horn about 6 i heads in , the were dust to be ; in seen fact freqehtl , as I y find in a it sing entered le garment in my ,
journal for the , human lack frame of cloth observable ing and a all bundance along the of road dirt . " a covering Beggars of course , more or less repulsive from physical causes ,
invoked the was besieged slow Holy to us enoug Mother enforce with h their to their and admit professional claims the of Blessed their clus whine our Saints tering ch whenever arity round being our our necessaril progress vehicle y ,
And then the maccaroni ! Could upon any one have . imagined such road a qu , antity hanging as we out all on at miniature once cam clothes e upon . lines on to either dry , side and friend of appa the
rentl " that y absorb some maccaroni dust ad inftnitum is so gritty . " No ! " wonder Maccaroni , " said enoug a h to ,
manufactory feed all _Naples , and one one would would think fan . cy Evidently it must be here the was one a thoug regular ht
nothing nothing of men , else in women is front to , be and behind seen children from or beside , their from open them morning doors but and maccaroni to ni windows ght , for in ,
various stages of preparation , , ; the very air was redolent of dry dust and moist maccaroni .
We found so much -to . amuse on the way that we more than steamin ever rej g oiced into in Pompeii our . determination But I have of hitherto driving said rather more than of
the things we saw on the road , than of the road itself and its
Fbom Naples To Pompeii. 317
FBOM NAPLES TO POMPEII . 317
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/29/
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