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For the exceedingly moderate outlay of one lira Italian or twenty cents American I secured this combination, to wit, as follows: In the background old Vesuvius, like a wicked, fallen angel, wearing his plumy, fumy halo of sulphurous hell-smoke; in the middle distance the Bay of Naples, each larcenous wave-crest in it triple-plated with silvern glory pilfered from a splendid moon; on the left the riding lights of a visiting squadron of American warships; on the right the myriad slanted sails of the coral-fishers' boats, beating out toward Capri, with the curlew-calls of the fishermen floating back in shrill snatches to meet a jangle of bell and bugle from the fleet; in the immediate foreground a competent and accomplished family troupe of six Neapolitan troubadours men, women and children some of them playing guitars and all six of them, with fine mellow voices and tremendous dramatic effect, singing the words being Italian but the air good American John Brown's Body Lies a-Moldering in the Grave!
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