and one gave the old man a franc and three copper
coins, and both started away; but they were called
back, and the franc and one of the coppers were
restored to them. Hence it is plain that in Italy,
parties connected with the drama and with the omni-
bus and toy interests do not cheat.

The stocks of goods in the shops were not exten-
sive, generally. In the vestibule of what seemed to
be a clothing store, we saw eight or ten wooden dum-
mies grouped together, clothed in woolen business
suits and each marked with its price. One suit
was marked forty-five francs--nine dollars. Harris
stepped in and said he wanted a suit like that.
Nothing easier: the old merchant dragged in the
dummy, brushed him off with a broom, stripped
him, and shipped the clothes to the hotel. He said
he did not keep two suits of the same kind in
stock, but manufactured a second when it was need-
ed to reclothe the dummy.

In another quarter we found six Italians engaged
in a violent quarrel. They danced fiercely about,
gesticulating with their heads, their arms, their legs,
their whole bodies; they would rush forward occa-
sionally in a sudden access of passion and shake their
fists in each other's very faces. We lost half an hour
there, waiting to help cord up the dead, but they
finally embraced each other affectionately, and the
trouble was all over. The episode was interesting,
but we could not have afforded all that time to it if
we had known nothing was going to come of it but
a reconciliation. Note made--in Italy, people who
quarrel cheat the spectator.

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