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Mallory comes back lookin' like some one had sold him a billboard seat to a free window show. But that was nothin' to the down-and-out slump I found him in next night, when I goes around for my writin' lesson and so on. "Is it the spino comeandgetus," says I, "or has Miss Tuttifrutti sent back your Christmas card?" "It's worse than either," says he, with his chin on the top button of his vest.
See Perkins's Italian Sculptors, pp. 46, 47. Istoria della Vita e Fatti dell' eccellentissimo Capitano di guerra Bartolommeo Colleoni, scritta per Pietro Spino. Republished, 1859. See Vol. I., Age of the Despots, p. 310, note 2. Crowe and Cavalcaselle, vol. ii. chap, xvi., may be consulted as to the several claims of the two brothers.
It is certain, at least, that our captains used to sacrifice a victim to the waves before they embarked on any voyage. Thus we see that Maso, the conqueror of Corsica, dedicated a temple to a fountain, and the names of the Tiber, Spino, Almo, Nodinus, and other neighboring rivers are in the prayers of the augurs.
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