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TOY BEAST OF BURDEN FROM SARDINIA
| The diminutiveness of this Sardinian donkey is accentuated by the height of its Sicilian owner who, while not over particular about taxing its miniature muscles, is bent on its cutting a handsome figure in the streets of Palermo. Indeed, bedecked with fine trappings, harnessed to a cart decorated with gaudily-painted allegorical pictures, its appearance is certainly calculated to call forth expression of admiration |
HIRSUTE PAYING GUESTS THAT LIVE WITH THE FAMILY
| Deficiency of outside accommodation and precaution against thieves explain the Palerman goat-keeper's custom of installing his goats under his own roof. The goats occupy the ground floor and the family the upper storeys. The practice is no more unhygienic than that found elsewhere, of human beings living over horses, but it is more unpleasant, owing to the strong smell of the goat |