Identifier: grantstouraround00pack (find matches)
Title: Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland ..
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Packard, J. F
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., W. S. Bryan (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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-posed. Perhaps it was the good government which weare told is dealing severely with beggars, or more likelyit was the weather, which, as I remarked, is very coldand seems to have taken all ambition out of the people. Stillwe w.ere not without attention in this way, and fromstreets and by-roads a woman or a man, or sometimes ablind man led by a boy, would start up and follow uswith appeals for money. They were starving or theirchildren were starving, and lest we might not understandtheir tongue, they would pat their mouths or their breaststo show how empty they were. For starving personsthey showed great courage and endurance in followingour carriage. The General had an assortment of coins,and, although warned in the most judicious manneragainst encouraging pauj)erism, he did encourage it, andwith so much success that before he was half way up themountain he was a pauper himself to the extent of bor-rowing pennies from, some of his companions to keep upthe demands upon his generosity.
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AROUND THE WORLD. 159 Wliat we observed in this long ride around tlie liorse-slioe was that Naples was a very dirty, a very happy anda very picturesque town. We learned that the supply ofrags was inexhaustible. I never knew what could bedone with rags until I saw these lazzaroni. They seem tohave grown rags, as a sheep grows his fleece, and yet therewas no misery in their faces—happy, dirty, idle, light-eyed, skipping, sunny-—you looked in vain for thoseterrible faces of misery and woe, which one sees so oftenin London. I take it, therefore, that begging is anamusement, an industry, and not a necessity—that theNaples beggar goes out to his work like any other laborer.He is not driven to it by the gaunt wolves hunger anddisease. One scamp, a gray-bearded scamp, too, whofollowed us, was a baker, who made and sold loaves. Hewas standing at his counter trading when our carriagehove in sight. At once he threw down his loaves andstarted after us in full chase, moaning and showing hist

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