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It was almost painful to destroy the reed-birds, or becca fichi so numerous were they, and so confiding. One discharge from each barrel of the fowling-piece had enabled Heaton to bring in enough for the whole party, and these were soon roasting. Mark had brought with him from the Reef a basket of fresh eggs, and they had been Bridget's load, in ascending the mountain.
The fig itself, he did not find as palatable as he had hoped, though it was refreshing, and served to vary the diet; but the bird struck him to be of the same kind as the celebrated reed-bird, of the Philadelphia market, which we suppose to be much the same as the becca fichi of Italy.
How could he send her to the nuns for a place unless he bought her some shoes and a rosary? And then that pig Marco thieving old miser peered forward with his mock candour and silver-rimmed goggles and offered ten for two soldi ten! with the market price, Dio mio, at twelve! And fichi totati too!
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