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Identifier: picturesintyrol00tuck (find matches)
Title: Pictures in Tyrol and elsewhere
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: (Tuckett, Elizabeth) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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nine portion of the party was tempted by the richsunset light to linger in the open air, while our fatherreturned to the hotel, and ordered supper. The ladieswandered round to the port at the back of the town,making small sketches of Porto Morizio in its aspectsuperbe, of a cart and two great sleepy, mild-eyed, dun-coloured oxen, of women and babies, who also lingered onthe quay, enjoying the coolness and rest. Some few sailorsand sous-ojfjficiers gathered round, and pleasant-spokenpeasants, who criticised the drawings and politely ex-pressed their pleasure over the sketch-books; but gradu-ally a plague of small boys began to darken the air: firstone or two, like the scouts of the mosquitoes, hoverednear, then, growing bolder, they signalled to their fellows,and the gnats began to swarm. They were tolerably re-spectful at first, keeping at a moderate distance, and actingalmost as a garde rfhonneur, conducting the ladies to theMole, where they lingered rejoicing in the great waves that
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