Rollo in Naples

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de, Rollo came into Mrs. Gray's room, wearing a somewhat disturbed

I'm sorry to hear that.

rrow," said Rollo, "and so he

m!" said Josie. "

ngaged?" ask

g with a pa

ed Josie. "Is it any

e direction. It is on the sea coast to the west

be seen at Bai??

hy people should want to go so far, and take away our guide, just t

on't think we need any guide at all to

nk so?" sai

hall say 'Pompeii!' to the coachman, and point that way. And when we get to Pomp

erhaps we might miss Mr. George, after all. I don't know how large a place

much danger of missing Mr. George. She found, however, that the plan of the town looked quite complicated. There was a long street, called the Street of the Tombs, leading into it; and then within the walls there were a grea

many streets," said Rollo. "There

on of it has been explored, and that you go down into as you would into a cellar or a mine. Pompeii was but just covered, and that only with sand

t deal pleasanter place

danger in our going by ourselves. If we don't find Mr. George, we

aid Rollo. "There is a railroad that runs al

arriage will take us and leave us wherever we wish. There will be mor

and Josie were to have a carriage ready at nine o'clock th

he soft cushions on the seats that look so inviting. The coachmen who drive these carriages are very eager to get customers. They watch at the doors of the hotels, and every where, indeed, along the streets, and whenever

seat. Others have only one horse, and only a back seat; but they all l

Gray's room. They did this at the request of the boys, who said it was more amusing to go into the public room and see the different parties

ed at the office of the hotel in going out, and inquired of the secretary how much ought to

g in the middle of the street opposite to the hotel. The coachmen of all these carriages, as soon as they saw the boys come ou

anted one; for if we do, they will come driving towards us in a body. We will walk along quietly till we come

opped before this carriage, the coachman jumped down from his box, and began to open the carriage door for them, and at the same time all the other coachmen in the line began cracking their whips, a

knew very well meant "Yes, sir, yes, sir." At the same ti

n, but waited to make his

g Quanto, Rollo held up the fingers of his right hand, to denote to

ing in Italian, and at the sa

three." And Rollo h

r another carriage unless he would take them for the regular and proper price, he said, "Si, signore," aga

came to see the carriage which the boys had chos

ness, Rollo," said Mrs. Gray, "as well as any

tand what you wanted, without

tly by signs,

pes of Vesuvius. After passing in this manner through one continued street for five or six miles, the road came out more into the open country, where fine views were had of the mountain on one side, and of the bay on the other. The mountain sides were generally extremely fertile, being covered with vineyards and

e lava had destroyed the part of the town that came in its way, and the people had built up their houses again on the top of it. The l

ed at a very pleasant place, among vineyards and mulberry groves,

going to begin. I don't see how we are go

ee," said

nt to take charge of the place, and to show it to visitors. One of these men, as soon as he saw the party, seemed to look very much pleased, and he advanced to meet them with a smiling face. At the same time he said something to a boy who was n

Mrs. Gray. "Mr. George has been her

ray and her party, and he had stationed this man at the gate to watch for them, with directions to send the boy in for him at an appointed place, as soon a

well that I should not have felt any anxiety if

leared, and all the sand and gravel under which they had been buried had been carted away. Immense heaps of this rubbish were lying outside the entrance, and the party had passed them in

ss one-storied houses. Many of the houses were originally two stories high, it is true; but the upper

our towns at the present day. The chief reasons for the difference arise from the absence of windows and chimneys in the hous

oom, or wherever it was required, than to make a chimney and a fireplace. The open pan in which the fires were made in those days stood on legs, and could be moved about any where. The fire was made of small twigs cut from the trees.

cool evening or morning, you will often see one of these brass pans before a door, with a little fire blazing in it, and childre

on arrangements like these for warming their rooms.

these openings might perhaps be called windows. But in order to prevent the wind and rain from coming in, it was necessary to have them placed in sheltered situations, as, for example, under porticos and piazzas. The custom therefore arose of having a great many porticos in the h

le basin, to receive the water. This was called the impluvium. Sometimes there was a fountain in the centre of the im

n imagining how the people looked in going in and out, and in living in them. The bed rooms were extremely small. The walls of some of them were beautifully painted, but th

s. In one case, the third court was a garden, with a beautiful portico formed of ornamental columns all around it. Beneath this portico the ladi

were ornamented in such a way as to lead people to suppose that it might have been used as a cool walk in warm weather. This passage way was first discovered by

etons were in a standing position against the wall, where the persons had been stopped and buried up by the mud as

other ornaments on the other bones. From this circumstance it is supposed that this person was the wife of the owner of the house, and

sentinel in his sentry box, at the gate of the city. He would not leave his post, as it would seem, and so perished at the station where he had been placed. His head, with the helmet still upon it, was carrie

many very curious shops, such as barbers' shops, painters' shops, wine shops, and the like. The wine shops were furnished with deep jars set in a sort of st

uins of temples, and other great public edifices. The columns and porticos which bordered the square are all now more or less in ruins; but there are stil

bats of wild beasts, and those of the gladiators. There are a great many ruins of amphitheatres like this scattered over Italy. They are

children seemed to think a great deal more of the houses and the shops. There was one baker's shop with the oven entire, and three stone hand mills, in which the baker used t

let them stay h

therefore built an immense museum at Naples, and every thing that is movable has been carried there. So we come here first to see the town

he party went out by another gate, where they found