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Besides the books we took with us we had newspapers, reviews, and other periodicals, so that we were never dull. On one occasion my daughters and I made an expedition up the hills to the Deserto, from whence one can see the Gulf of Salerno and the fine mountains of Calabria. My daughters rode and I was carried in a portantina.
George; "you certainly can go, for you can be carried up in a portantina from the place where we leave the carriage. But if you please, I will send for a commissioner, and he can tell us all about it." "Very well," said Mrs. Gray, "I should like to have you do that." "Ring the bell, then, Rollo," said Mr. George. So Rollo rang the bell; a servant man soon came in.
"I could not get up, I am sure," said Mrs. Gray. "Nor I," said Rosie. "O, you can be carried up," said Mr. George, "in a portantina." "What kind of a thing is it?" asked Mrs. Gray. "It is a common arm chair," said Philippe, "with two stout poles lashed to the sides of it.
As soon as the portantina bearers reached the place where he stood, they set down the chair, and immediately the whole set crowded around Mr. George, and again demanded buono manos. "Philippe payera," said Mr. George, pointing down the mountain to the Hermitage "Philippe payera, l
Next to Rollo came Josie, with the two strapmen pulling him up by their straps. Then the refreshment man, with his basket of provisions on his head. Last of all came the bearers of the portantina, with Rosie in the chair. Mr. George followed immediately after. He kept close to Rosie all the way, for he thought she would be afraid to be left alone with such wild and rough-looking men.
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