| ZIA MADDALENA AND HER FAMILY. [Page 303.] | CAPTAIN BIGNAMI AND HIS STAFF. [Page 310.] |
MESSINA. GASPERONE AND WATER BOYS IN HOTEL COURTYARD. [Page 289.]
MESSINA. ROAD-MAKING IN THE AMERICAN VILLAGE. [Page 305.]
furniture from Rome. See the nice little desks, the little chairs. Here are the copy-books. This belongs to the son of that woman you talked with, a fair hand for a nine-year-old, non è vero?”
He showed me the text-books, the maps, the teacher’s records, the sum in subtraction on the blackboard, the prancing horse a clever scholar had drawn below it.
“It’s one of the best equipped village schools I ever saw,” I exclaimed.