Rollo in Naples

Jour

in a very successful and prosperous manner. The various contingencies likely to occur having been foreseen and provided for by the contract and the rules, every thing worked smooth

the breakfast was at seven o'clock. Mr. George knocked at all the doors a little before quarter past six. About quarter before seven the two boys came into the breakfast room, and soo

s sit down quick, and mother will

r sitting down," said Rollo.

e got the watch. It wants

won't come,"

osie. "She has been alm

e minute hand. Mr. George, who thought it not polite that he should take his seat before Mrs. Gray came, sto

did not come. Rosie watched the second hand,

ven o'clock; now

uite pleased. In about two minutes the door of M

" said Josie, in an exulti

to decide," said Mrs. Gra

two minutes beyond the time, or a minute and a half, at the ve

it to me," said Josie

et," said Mrs. Gray. "You don't kno

ence, mother," said Josie

y. "Is that the agreeme

o looked over very eagerly all the time,-she found the passage, and Josie

release from the fine, except,' and so forth, and

. I pay it very willingly. It would be very dishonorable in any of us, after havi

more than six cents, but which she said was near enough to the amount of the fine, and paid it into Josie's

when once enacted, such laws ought to be enforced. She knew very well that if she had once submitted to be fined, when she was only a minute and a half behind the time, and also to be refused a hearing for her excuse, nobody could a

avellers passed, the occupation of the inhabitants was that of braiding straw for bonnets; and here every body seemed to be braiding. In the streets of the villages, at the doors of the houses, and all along the roads every where, men, women, and children were to be seen standing in little groups, or walking about together i

centre of Italy, with Rome for the capital of it. The Papal States are so called because they are

the crosses which were put up here and there by the road side, with the various emblems and symbols connected with our Saviour's death affixed to them. The first time that

at that cross, with all thos

e Roman soldier, by which the body of Jesus was pierced in the side. From the same part of the post out to the end of the opposite arm of the cross was a pole with two sponges at the end of it, which represented the sponges with which the soldiers reached the vineg

ON THE

s very eagerly, as the carriage drove by.

s that is!"

dolatry," said Rosie,

the poor people who lived in all these countries were very ignorant, as indeed they are now; and inasmuch as they cou

r contrivances, I

ts' huts. His father and mother probably have never even seen a book, and are not capable of understanding any thing that is not perfectly simple and plain. The child, walking along the road side, sees this cross. He stops to look up at it, and wonders what all those little objects fastened upon it mean. After a wh

"I should think s

hrough his hands and feet. Don't you see the nails?' And the child would say, 'Yes,' and look at the nails very intently. 'The soldiers climbed up by a ladder,' she would say. 'Don't you see the ladder? And by and by, when in his fever he called for some drink, they reached someth

osie; "I thin

as well as a wrong and an idolatrous one. Unfortunately, however, pretty much all of them, though perh

rdens of vegetables of every kind. Here and there groups of peasants were to be seen at work, men and women together, some digging fresh fields, some ploughing, some planting, and some pruning the trees or the vines. In many places the vin

G THE MO

s in extent, but extremely fertile and luxuriant, and bounded in the distance by blue and beautiful mountains. After travelling upon one of these plains for many hours, the road would gradually approach the mountains, an

ned upon itself in continual zigzags, there was presented to Mr. George and Rollo, and also to Mrs. Gray's party within the carriage, as they ascended, a perpetual succession

Indeed the men who came with the extra horses or oxen often rode themselves. When oxen were employed, the man used to ride, sometimes sitting on the yoke between them,

from the team. Vittorio would pay him for his services, and then the man would come and hol

st; it was called simply coffee. The breakfast, which came about noon, consisted of fried fish, beefsteaks, or mutton chops, fried potatoes, all hot, and afterwards oranges and

f the party were very willing to have it called so; and when they stopped

xote. The entrance was generally under an arched passage way, where the horses and carriage could go in. From this passage a flight of broad stone steps led up into t

ll and very coarse carpet under the table, and sometimes one before the fireplace. The doors were massive; and the locks and hinges upon them, and also the andirons and the shovel and tongs, were of the most ancient and curious construction. The first

beds in each. According to the agreement, Mrs. Gray had her first choice of these rooms. She chose one, if possible, wh

lways had a fire in the great hall every evening. Mrs. Gray usually went to her room with Rosie and Susannah at half past eight, leaving Mr. George and the two boys in the hall

it?" as

night, from and after the time that Mrs. Gray goes into he

cle George?"

s Josie; and the evening, after Mrs. Gray and Rosie have gone to their room, will be the best time to appropriate to the work. You can

rule for me and Jos

George, "it is

for Josie," said Rollo

s for Josie," replied Mr. George. "I have no

, and I am not allowed to talk, and Mrs. Gray and Rosie h

said Mr.

at once," said Rollo. "You may just as well make a rule that he shall not tal

o do the one comes within my author

and seemed to be musing on what Mr.

and regulations for the journey which you drew up. We all a

the two divisions of the party. They are not at all of the nature of a compact between Mrs. Gray and her children, nor between you and me. Her a

the rule. Indeed, I should like some time every evening to write and dra

k the argument stand

nds pretty stro

ut Mr. George said no. If boys were allowed to talk together after they went to bed, he said

ike a constant murmuring through the partitions, and disturbs every body that is near. So you must do all your talking in the course of the day, and when eight o'clock comes, y

faithfully observed d

at Rome. The party spent the Sabbath at Rome, and on the Monday morning after they set out again. On the following Thursday they arrived at Naples, and there they all established themselves in