“This is the bakery!” said the Captain. “This is the baker; he himself built his oven. Your Majesty can see how light the bread is!”
Her Majesty said something kind to the baker, then crossed the street to the butcher’s shop, neat as wax, with all the latest sanitary contrivances; next to the school, then to the church, last of all to the industrial school,—a busy hive of working women and girls.
“The Queen was perfectly delighted,” writes
THE KING, ESCORTED BY BUCHANAN, BROFFERIO AND ELLIOTT, VISITS AMERICAN VILLAGE, MESSINA. [Page 436.]
MESSINA. PAINTING THE AMERICAN COTTAGES. [Page 439.]
CHURCH OF SANTA CROCE, AMERICAN VILLAGE, MESSINA. Page 451.