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Updated: May 25, 2025
Rose, sitting on the side of the bed nursing little Bino, the latest addition to the family, answered promptly: "His mouth, of course. I wouldn't marry a man who showed his gums when he laughed, not if every hair of his head was strung with diamonds!"
Down these lanes came bancas, sometimes with a single occupant paddling at the stern, sometimes with a whole family sitting motionless on their heels. Once we passed the ruins of what had been a sugar mill or a bino factory probably the latter. Then the Blanco, puffing ahead, whistled twice, we rounded a curve and came full upon the town.
A very "grave and manifest infirmity" did intervene to prevent the execution of the work, for on the 19th of the following August, Maestro Bino discharged his workmen on account of the plague, which had begun to devastate Perugia; and there is reason to think that the maestro himself perished by it, for after that last entry the name of Bernardino di Luca vanishes into the abyss of darkness, and is no more heard of, and shortly afterward we find the convent entering into a new bargain with another maestro for the execution of the work.
Maestro Bino binds himself not to undertake any other work till the choir is wholly finished and put up, and he engages to do all the work within the walls of the convent. He is bound to keep four men at work under him, and more if necessary." The work is to be completed within two years should no impediment intervene by death or grave and manifest illness.
It will be observed that this price is about fifty per cent. higher than that for which Maestro Bino had contracted to do the work, which is an indication of the then rapidly-falling value of the precious metals.
And no doubt Maestro Bernardino or "Bino," for short, as he is called in the instrument when once at the beginning he has been named formally at full length practiced all the more ordinary business of his trade. But there must have been carpenters and carpenters, as to the present day there are painters and painters, the same word indicating the calling of a Landseer and of a house-painter.
The convent undertakes to furnish money from time to time as needed for the pay of the journeymen, and fifty ducats beforehand for the hiring of assistants and other necessary expenses. Maestro Bino went to work at once, and on the 15th of that same April had from the convent what seems the very large sum of ten florins and eight soldi for glue.
Liquor the vendors dare not proffer, the provost marshal's people had forbidden that, and only at the licensed bars in town or by bribery and stealth in the outlying suburbs could the natives dispose of the villainous "bino" with which at times the unwary and unaccustomed American was overcome.
One used to see, on the one-horsed omnibus which in old times represented the locomotion of Madrid, Serbicio de omnibus quite as often as Servicio. Over the venta of El Espirito Santo on the road to Alcalá now an outskirt of Madrid was written, Aqui se veve bino y aguaardieñte meaning, Aqui se bebe vino, etc.
Herr Paul chimed in; "the weak goes to the wall; that is as certain as that you and I are here." "Let them fall against the wall," cried Harz; "don't push them there...." Greta reappeared, walking pensively in the rain. "Bino," she said, sighing, "has eaten too much. I remember now, I did feed them before. Must we do the history, Chris?" "Of course!"
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