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Updated: June 9, 2025
"I was fixin' m' galluses, over Crawford's hedge, whin a gomeral luked over an' says, says he: "'Morra, Hughie! "'Morra, bhoy! says I. Anna arose, put her little Sunday shawl around her shoulders, tightened the strings of her cap under her chin and went out. We gasped with astonishment! What on earth could she be going out for? She never went out at night. Everybody came to her.
"'Soun' slape th' night an' safe journey th' morra, says I. "'Get yer third out or I'm gone, says he. "I scratched m' head an' swithered, but divil a third cud I think ov. Jist as he was goin', 'Oh, says I, 'I want a pig fur this sty! "'Ye'll git him! says he, an' off he wint." Here was something, after all, that gave us more excitement than a Banshee story. We had a sty.
But suddenly Lapo Cercamorte was gayer than he had been since the fall of Grangioia Castle. Every morning, when he had inquired after Madonna Gemma's health, and had sent her all kinds of tidbits, he went down to sit among his men, to play morra, to test swordblades, to crack salty jokes, to let loose his husky guffaw.
"Morra, Sonny!" "Morra, Anna!" "Aany day but Sunday he may go, dear, but not th' day." That was all that was needed. Sonny wanted me to take him bird-nesting. He had the price in the bundle. "If I give ye this now," he said, "will ye come some other day fur nothin'?" "Aye." In the bundle was a "bap" a diamond-shaped, flat, penny piece of bread. I rejoined the cup-tossers. Another whistle.
Some started the game of "nanko" with a force that beat the sword-drawing practice. Others began playing morra, and the way they shook their hands, intently absorbed in the game, was a better spectacle than a puppet show. One in the corner was calling "Hey, serve me here," but shaking the bottle, corrected it to "Hey, fetch me more sake."
The sweetest and the best of the jungle productions is the "morra." This is a berry about the size of a small nutmeg, which grows in clusters upon a large tree of rich dark foliage.
Here a wine-skin was passed from hand to hand, there a joint was roasting on a wooden spit; farther on a party were throwing dice for the booty they had won, or playing at morra. All was in eager activity, and many a scuffle occurred amoung the excited soldiers, and had to be settled by the camp-watch.
Teresa, the elder, was taught by Ferrero, Caldera, and Morra, but in 1836 she went to Paris and studied under Lafont, and afterwards under Habeneck, going still later to Brussels, where she took lessons of De Bériot, and received the finishing touch to her artistic education, faultless intonation. Her career as a concert player began when she was about nine years of age.
We went as far as the quays, strolled back and on the way called at a small cafe, the only inmate of which was a dwarf, as remarkable looking as Velasquez's Sebastian de Morra. The hall porter at our hotel was waiting our return with anxiety. "It was not safe to be out at night," he said; "we had gold watches on us and money in our purses, and knives were sharp."
Marx, whose countenance with its curious resemblance to that of the dwarf of Velasquez, Sebastian de Morra, seems to single him out as the apostle and avenger of human degradation and human suffering, published the first sketch of his principles in 1847, but more completely in the manifesto adopted by the Paris Commune in 1849.
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