dogana-official

Updated: July 4, 2025

The shore was deserted save for myself and a portly dogana-official who was playing with his little son trying to amuse him by elephantine gambols on the sand, regardless of his uniform and manly dignity. Notwithstanding his rotundity, he was an active and resourceful parent, and enjoyed himself vastly; the boy pretending, as polite children sometimes do, to enter into the fun of the game.

Norman Douglas - Old Calabria