spazzaturaio

Updated: May 10, 2025

It's a Swiss music-box for the crippled son of the spazzaturaio, or street-cleaner; it's a marriage-portion for this one and funeral expenses for that one; it's filling the mendicant nuns' coal-cellar, it's clothing a whole orphan-school in a cheerfuller color!

Gertrude Hall Brownell - Aurora the Magnificent