In a New Light.
The cleverness of English ladies appears in a new light, as it is seen from tho point of view occupied by the simple-minded peasant women of northern Italy. .An English traveller reports an amusing conversation which he had one morning with some of the peasants who live among the Apennines.
"Fancy to yourself," exclaimed a lively woman, "what talent the English havo! In our country it is the men that do tho pictures, but these ladies seem to know all about it as well as a man. Then they can talk our language too Just fancy how foolish we Italians should look if we went to their country and could not speak or understand a word ! " Then, with a brilliant flash of thought, she added : "Do the English peasants speak our language or yours, signof a ? " " Oh ! ours, of course." ••There, I thought so!" continued the woman. " How much more clever they must be than we are, who know only our own ! "
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Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 49
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166In a New Light. Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 49
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