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But now comes Franci to make the dinner. Will Señor Colorado dine with the Skipper from the Bahamas? Welcome he will be, truly." Little John started, and a guilty flush swept over his clear face. "I forgot!" he cried. "I forgot all about everything, and Cousin Scraper will be home by this time, and and I'll have to be going, please; but I'll come again, if you think I may."

"I think so, too! That was like my boy Rento, but not like Franci. Franci dies every time he see a snake, and come to life only to find out if somebody else is killed. See, my son, how beautiful the moon on the water! Let us look for a few moments, to take the beauty into us, and then I must send my little friend to his bed, that nothing harmful comes to him."

"How well he would stick, eh? The fatness of his person! It is but to say the word, Patron." Mr. Bill Hen recoiled with a look of horror, and prepared for instant flight; but the Skipper's gesture reassured him. "Franci, look if there is a whale on the larboard bow!" said the latter. "Perfectly, Patron!" replied Franci, withdrawing with his most courtly bow.

"Look, then!" exclaimed Franci, throwing his arms abroad with a dramatic gesture. "I am not of nature murderous. A dove, a lamb at sport in the meadow, such is the heart of Franci. But behold me desolated on this infernal schooner. Torn by my parents from my home, from warm places of my delight, from various maidens, all enamoured of my person, I am sent to be a sailor.

Franci told him he was the son of a pig that had died of the plague, and that he, Franci, devoutly hoped the son would share the fate of his mother, without time to consult a priest.

S. Luka, the Greek church, of nearly the same period and plan as the cathedral, was built in 1195 by Marco di Andrea Casa Franci, and Bona, daughter of Basilio, prior of Cattaro, The dome is pointed, and rests on four pointed Romanesque arches with rough pendentives.

The doctor motioned to the Spaniard; and the latter, without another word, took the child up in his arms as he had done once before, swung him over his shoulder, and left the room. "Rento!" "Ay, ay, sir!" "Franci!" "Señor!" "Jack and Jim!" The monkeys for answer leaped on their master's shoulder, and chattered, and peered round into his face. "The company of this schooner, attention!

Far too little laughter has been in thy life so far; here thou shalt be as gay as the sun is bright on the Bahamas. Of what use to be a sailor, if not to rejoice, and to see with joy the works of God and His glory? Laugh, Colorado, the sound is music in my ears!" But by-and-by the play must cease. Orders were given, and Rento and Franci set to work in good earnest.

That's all I know." "Caramba!" said a handsome youth, who was lounging on the rail a few feet off, gazing on with idle eyes, "you got the schoolmaster here, Patron! I did not know all that, me, and I come, too, from Bahamas. Say, you teach a school, M'sieur?" "Franci!" said the Patron, gravely. "Si, Señor!" said Franci, with a beautiful smile, which showed his teeth under his black mustache.

While Francesco Francia was working at his painting in Bologna, there was among his many disciples a young man called Marc' Antonio, who, being more gifted than the others, was much brought forward by him, and, from having been many years with Francia and greatly beloved by him, acquired the surname of De' Franci.