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"Yes, I have been here with friends studying for nearly a year; but I am soon to return home. And now, before I leave you, I want to hear all about Giusippe's plans. What is he to do?" Little by little the story was told. Mr. Cabot began it and continued it until Giusippe, who thought him too modest, finished the tale. "You see, señorita, Mr.
The figure was that of a girl a girl with wind-tossed hair who, with head thrown back, stopped a moment and looked full into the sunset. It was Miss Ethel Cartright of New York, Giusippe's beautiful lady of Venice! The voyage from Liverpool to Boston was thoroughly interesting to Giusippe.
And our mille-fiori glass, which came to us way back from the Egyptians, is another famous variety. This is made from the ends of fancy colored sticks of glass cut off and arranged in a pattern. You will see it in the shops here." "I think you Venetians are wonderful!" Jean exclaimed. "Ah, señorita, you have yet to see one of the finest things we have done," was Giusippe's grave reply.
Between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Damascus became the center of glass-making, and there are in existence in some of the museums old Arab lamps which hung in the mosques with inscriptions from the Koran engraved upon them. It is Giusippe's St.
"I never saw so many pigeons," Jean whispered. "You have many more than we do at home." "We Venetians are very fond of the birds," was Giusippe's reply. "So, too, are the tourists who come to Venice, for they never seem to be tired of having their pictures taken surrounded by flocks of pigeons." "Doesn't this make you think of Boston Common, Hannah?" asked Uncle Bob. "Yes, a little.
Here was quite a different type of city from Boston a city with many beautiful buildings, fine residences, and a swarm of great factories which belched black smoke up into the blue of the sky. Here, too, were Giusippe's aunt and uncle with a hearty welcome for him; and here, furthermore, was the new position which the boy had so eagerly craved in the glass works.
There was no need to urge a lad of Giusippe's make-up to "jump in"; on the contrary it might, perhaps, have been wiser advice to caution him not to take his new work too hard. He toiled early and late, never sparing himself, never thinking of fatigue. Physically he was a rugged boy, and to this power was linked the determination to make good.
"The members of the guilds were so honored in Venice that they were considered equal in birth to the noblest families. They were gentlemen. A titled woman felt only pride in uniting herself with a glass-maker's family." "Perhaps that is what your great-great-great-great-great-grandmother did," Jean said, half aloud. "Yes, señorita," was Giusippe's simple answer.
They bade a hurried good-bye to Miss Cartright, whom Uncle Bob was to put aboard the New York train, and into a cab bundled Hannah, Giusippe, and Jean, in which equipage, almost smothered in luggage, they were rolled off to Beacon Hill. Nothing could exceed Giusippe's interest in these first glimpses of the new country to which he had come.
Uncle Tom became so interested that he got out his book and spent several evenings coaching the leading lady, as he called the girl; one night he even went so far as to impersonate "Orlando," and he and Jean gave a dress rehearsal in the library, greatly to Giusippe's delight and amusement.
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