...............30 lire.
Wood for building..........................11
Nails.......................................2
Labor and making...........................14
Pieces broken in bending....................5
Carrying boats to the bano..................2
Time lost while at exhibition..............10
Wine for poor boy who fell overboard........1
Total 75 lire
The above is a fair sample of how contracts are adhered to in many
European countries. Paul paid the fellow the thirty lire that were due
him, receiving the profane blessing of the irate builder. Boyton was
just in time for the great Roman Carnival and had the pleasure, if such
it may be called, of witnessing the spectacle of barbrie barbrie. This
was cruel and dangerous sport--a horse race along the Corso, the
principal thoroughfare in Rome; which is a narrow, winding street. The
race was contested by five or six thoroughbred horses, nearly wild
and very vicious. They were turned loose in the street without bridle
or any other harness with the exception of a surcingle, from the sides
of which hung like tassels, steel balls, with sharp, needle-like points
projecting from their surface that served to prick and goad the animals
to a frenzy of speed.
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