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Updated: June 9, 2025
"And you won't let him go organ-grinding any more?" "No." "That's all right; though I don't think it would be at all bad on fine days in the country, if one had a nice little donkey to pull the organ." "Nice little donkeys have to be fed," Mordaunt reminded her. "Oh yes. But they eat grass and thistles and things. And they never die. Isn't that extraordinary?
I must confess that no other of my door-step acquaintance had so clear an idea as this one of the difference between things here and at home. To the minds of most we seemed divided here as there into rich and poor, signori, persone eivili, and povera gente, and their thoughts about us did not go beyond a speculation as to our individual willingness or ability to pay for organ-grinding.
Sometimes I see him gravely organ-grinding for a crowd of youngsters, sometimes with an innate courtliness characteristic of him for a white-haired couple by a garden gate. He is wandering about in search of health. Oddly, his way lies, too, through Kentucky and Tennessee, to Florida.
It seems that the heavy work in the quarries and the new railway gradings is done mainly by Italians. That was a revelation. We have the notion in our country that Italians never do heavy work at all, but confine themselves to the lighter arts, like organ-grinding, operatic singing, and assassination. We have blundered, that is plain.
About half a mile from the town there is a very large meadow by the river, where a small town of booths, tents, &c., is erected, and where shooting at targets with wooden darts, sham railway-trains and riding-horses, confectionery of every kind, beer of every name, strength, and colour, pipes, cigars, toys, gambling, organ-grinding, fiddling, dancing, &c., goes on incessantly.
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