Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-18

| old laiy's head and she started of. She
! had the best of it for he soon began to
| shrek with the pain of his position
| "Let me down. Let me DOWN. But
| the old lady was bent on earning her
money and her reputation and she re-
| fused. No; he was on and he had to
! stay and she grabbed his legs with more
determination and walked on still faster.
He pleaded, he threatened, he wept for
| pain and finally her heart was melted
by O
PROMISE OF DOUBLE THE MONEY
aud she let him off. We met her the
other day; a nice old face she has and q
carriage erect as the princess OF Wales.
She told us she never got but one franc
] for that famous expedition of hers with
the EnGlishman.
Whenever or wherever you meet the
| Capri people, they smile at you and cay
good day with such a grace of good feel
| ing that you love them all. They are very
| different people from the Neapohtan;
they are moral and honest, though they
/ do love money, and are not ashamed to
| beg for it on every occasion. Soldi
! is the first word an Italian baby learns.
admired the gorgeous kerchief that one
of the women wore, and she Immediately
| took 1t off and offered it for sale. l
asked if she did not have a new one. oh
yes, she had; and she ran off to fetch it..
| Presently she returned and held one out
! to me that looked very bright and fresh ,
but remarkably like the old one. L put
| out my hand to touch it and found 1t
| dripping wet. She had run home and
washed the one l admired. 1t is now in
my possession, and is one of my most
cherished souvenirs.
Every day some woman comes with a
great tray full of corals to sell. One of
these is a picture, great white silk
kerohief is loosely knotted on her breast I,
her round, brown neck is
COVERED WITH CORAL BEADS,
and over her shining black hair she
wears a bright, red bandanna. When
she smiles that gentle, timid, inviting
smile, and holds out her red-heapsd tray
toward you, you buy whether you want
to or not.
TO enjoy Capri thoroughly you want to
ride on a donkey up the narrow, winding
road of steps to the villa of Tiberius, or
along one of these roads that ascend the
hill like ship lacking against the wind.
There Is something about the patient,
peaceful donkey that exactly harmonizes
with the atmosphere of Capri, and am
convinced that you realize the blissful-
ness of.this blessed spot more fully from
the back of q donkey than in any other
way. The scenery never seems
60 exquisitely restful as when
framed in by those patient donkey
ears; you don't want to
20 any faster than the donkey wants to
60; the more he stops to Craze along the
road the better; it does not worry you In
the least that the donkey Is impervious
to bit and rein; you resign yourself 60
the donkey, and that very act of resig-
nation seems to put you in receptive
condition for new impressions. Part OF
the charm of donkey ls the bare-head-
ed, bare-footed donkey woman who
walks along beside and
PUSHES THE DONKEY
wherever you want him crying, "A-s-
hi a-a-hi" When we come to a par
ticularIy steep place, "Couragei Cour-
agelip pronounced coorahjay) she calls
and there never was a word in any
tongue that seems so applicable to the
donkey race as courage. Sometimes
she falls behind TO gather flowers for
you; the fainter grows her clear, sweet
voice, the slower goes the donkey, and II
1t stops he stops, and none Of your imi-
itated A-a-h's have any. effect
/ upon him. she talks In q
mixture Of French, English and Ital-
| ian, ''Good donkee, nice donkeep'
and then in the same tone TO you, "Bella
Slgnorina! with evident expectation of
/ being paid for it at the end of the jour-