Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-09-04
Ncapolltan Street Scene.

We t0ok carriages at nine O'Clock 10 Re
sina, a drive nf iuur miles, aud one of
exceeding INTEREST," yOl with 10 SEE Ma
pies lie. The way is rnupd the eurving
bay by the sea; but - continuously
built up j. II. and so enclosed with high
walls of villas, through the open gates OF
which the golien oranges CLEAN, that
YOU 70, m never to lsave the city. The
streets and quays swarm with the most
yociferuus, airy. .multitndinuus life. IL
is a drive through Rag FAIR. The tall,
whitey-y, How house, fronting the water
six, esen. eight stories high, a-e full as
I've, hives; people are ut all the open win
d,vs: garments hang from the balconies
aud frUm poe thrust OUT; up very mar
row, gloumy, ascending stIeets are
crowds Of struggling, human shapes;
aud you see how like herrIngs in a box
are packed the over half million people
of Naples. Iu front uf the h uses are
the markets ia the open air-fish, veg
tal,le~, carts uf oranges: IN the sun sit
women spinning from distaff> or weaving
fshiug nets; and rows OF children who
were never washed and never clothed
but once, aud whose garments have
nearly wasted away; beggIrs, fisherman
in red caps. sailors, priests, donkeys,
fruit yenders, street mu ,icians, Carriages,
carts, twU-Wheeled break down vehicles
the whole tangled in one wild roar and
rush aud bahel-a shifting, varied plno'
rama OF color, rags-a paudemonium
such as the world cannot show else
uheIe-lhdt is what Que sees on the roa'l
to Resina. The drivers all drive in the
streets here as IL they hell commission
from the devil, cracking their whips,
shouting to their horses, and dashing
into the thickest tanhle with entire reck.
lessness, They have one cry, med
alike for getting more speed out OF their
horses or for checking them, or in warn
ing to the endangered crowds on f'ot.
1t is an explanatory grIlnt, which may
be partially expressed by the letters
"a-e.ugh.n Every body shouts it-mnle
driver, "coachae," or cattle dTivel; anC
even l. passenger, fanciei could dc
IL to disagreeable per ection after time
= Out Of this thong in the streets l like
: to select the meek, patient, dim'nutIvt
little donkeys, with enormous panulers
I that almost hide them. One woul,
have a woman, seated on top, with I
] child in one pauier and cabbages III tht
} other; another with an immense stool
of market greens on his back, or big has
ket of oranges, or with a row OF wine
9 casks aud adhering by some unknown
] law of adhesion, to the slipping tail
I Then there was the cart drawn by SOM
! dlminutive donkey, or by an OK, or b.
j an OK and a donkey, or by donkev an'
t horse abreast-nevel by any possiblllt.
u a matched team And. funniest OF all
J WAS the high, two-wheeled cdtechs, wit
o one seat aud top thrown back, with lon
d thills and poor horse. Upon this veh
g Gle were piled, Heaven knows how, bt
i hind, before, on the thllls, and under
# nsath the high seat, sometimes ten, an
not seldom as many as eithteen peopl
men, women, and children-all l
Haunting rags, with colored scarf her
e ond there, or a scarlet cap-perhaps
q priest, with broad black hat, in til
e centie-drving along like comet, til
:, poor horse in galop, the bells on b
4 ornamented sa Idle merrily iinglin9, an
:, the whole load in roar OF merriment.-
: ''.SaupterinqS, BY c. ID. Wdrder.