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And now, whoever has ague, or is with child, or hath bandy-legged children, or witch-crossed cows, always goes there; and the hermit cures them. That was money well laid out, I suppose." "Per Bacco!" cried Andrea, "I'll tell you some more. Did you ever hear of Monna Betta's short leg?" Petruccio cuffed him well.
"There were more of you fellows the other night," said the Corporal of the Guard. "Where are the rest of you? Come now, out with it; no lies here!" Petruccio, who had some sense, shammed to have none; but Andrea, less happy, was a real fool. At this invitation he looked wise. "Castracane is not here true, but it wasn't Castracane," he muttered, and found his neck in a vice.
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The sun went down behind Monte Venda, the bats came flickering out, the great droning cockchafers dropped on the road like splashes of rain. The night found them still far from Abano, but still talking and nearly all friends. Silvestro was hand in hand with Petruccio and another boy, called Mastino because he was heavy-jowled and underhung.
By a brambly path they climbed Monte Ortone Petruccio first, the others after him, the newcomer as best might be, then musically the goats. That round-faced, blinking boy, whom they called Castracane, was behind Silvestro now, much diverted by her panting efforts to go up without panting what he could rise on with closed mouth and scarcely any sharper whistling at the nose.
"A palsy on her leg, and a palsy strike thee," he thundered, "if with thy old women's tales we miss the path! Go drive the goats in, thick-chops, and stay that clapper of thine till they ask for a crow-keeper. Move now, be off!" "'Tis a hard thing, Petruccio," blubbered Andrea, "if one may not tell the honour of his own land to a stranger." But Petruccio sent him flying with grit in his ear.
"But I can't go, Nannina; you know it as well as I do." "I am not so sure. Do you mean what you say, Ippolita?" "Ah, Nannina!" "Then you shall go. It so happens that I know one of those goatherds a rough lout of a fellow called Petruccio. I could tell him that a youngster had got into trouble in the city and wanted to lie quiet for a week or two. I can do it, Ippolita." "Oh!
It was a pity, certainly, about the pig-eyed boy, who snorted whenever the exploit was mentioned but "Never mind him," thought Silvestro; "I have all the others." They passed through Abano; Monte Ortone was ahead, a spur of the great body of the hills. "There's the hermit's candle," said Petruccio. A twinkling light showed deep in the trees.
"I see them on the riviera now. Slip into the boat. I will put you across." On the other bank, Ippolita was received by the herd-boys, all agog to see the champion who had killed the Jew. "Addio, Silvestro," said Annina, keeping up the play. "Addio, Nannina," said Silvestro, with a chuckle. "Are we ready, boys?" Petruccio called out, turning about him. "We must be careful what we're doing."
"All I know is," said he, "that I saw a Jew cutting bread at the Albero Verde last Martinmas, and he slipped into his own thumb, and came off as red as a dog's tongue. Bah!" "Damn the Jew," said Petruccio, yawning; "let's go to sleep, boys." She woke early, with the full light of day in her eyes.
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