"WHEN WENDY WAS IN NAPLES."
"Naples is built on tho shores of tlio Mediterranean Sea. About eighteen miles from Naples, Vesuvius, the voicnuo which buried Pompeii, raises its stately head. In the day timo a continual" volume of smoke rises into Uio air, and tit night there is a red glow over the crater. When you land you are . very surprised to see the wharf-police,, who are dresacd ..' just like'l. Napoleon . Bonaparte. , Other, men tu;o dressed like, Kobiu llood!a ■■ merry men. ;\Vo..went :for a tdrivp all round the town and places of interest. The town was 'decorated with differentcolourcd lights, because it was a festival day... We went in, a cable-ear to the top of Montcsanto, six hundred .feet .above Naples,.:where we .had ; a magnificent view of the Bay of Naples, Vesuvius,' and the city., 'When we. came down, it began to. rain, so the guide opened a huge umbrella, covering the whole party, . which is. very like- the- umbrella used by farmers in England when going to market,, which covers both seats of the gig. ... Wellington. .. .'. '.WENDY.,
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1930, Page 18
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