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The Record Newspaper 28 October 1899

Page 1

OUR

STORY,

From

"

the

GIUSEPPE.

"

GIANT

all

steel

all

but

led soft

to

fairy

light

of every

who commodious

does

also

hospital

Antonio

St.

Bambino

in

"entrance

niche

a.

This

Machine

about

those

and'

a

him

left

is!'

to 'I

her

Market.

behind of the

Deluge

Giuditta

shook doubt.

her

as

in

if

Giuseppe's seems.

I

the

such

saw

him

the

want

been

buy

or

and

there

IiK

128

WILLIAM

ft

in

w.

;

the

a.

tatte

iis

the

forestieri

107

as

Lago Regillo.' MELBOURNE

at

whispered

old

him, the old

BALLARAT

!'

glutton

there

SUMMER

goes,'

PERTH

'The

miserable like

living

to

creature

to

fighting' .cock turned his daughter, doors out of because

having Giulia, married

a

the

believed,

rooms

truly,"

5,

run

at

Ballarat,

Boxing

at

Day,

24

December

26th,

January

run

5,

Perth,

:

November

January

26tli,

1899.

1900.

1900.

.1st,

which contained

Bank

of New

South

poor

she

they

Wales.

BROTHERS' COLLEGE.

CHRISTIAN

GEORGE'S

with a of old, pair and side the tiny, shrunken limbs beneath the coverlet told a and disease. story of suffering

ST.

TERRACE,

P E

Antonio

was

the

tieri—

bric-a-brac,

a

better

class

inexperienced and antiques

and there was also Giuseppe's kinds, where he and sanctum, polished to make old things look like plated, and also new, besmeared, rubbed, other smoked, and in many ways new. them ill-treated things to make look old.

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art me

art

!

to-day

-worse

the

at

not

door

to

?'

Nonno, is

I

could

so

great.'

not

The

rise.

old

'

R

is

This Co lege -well-furnished

large,

T H.

the situated on dormitories. airy

beautifully classrooms,

%

of

the

Swan

It

River. and

gymnasium,

ane

has

extensive

boarders

are

prepared

under

are

frV

the,

Adelaide

of

care

could

and

University

then

Matron.

tsAcrienoed

an

Government

1897 twenty-one students College Examinations.

passes —

During by the

viz.,

in

public

seventeen

of the

Government

Scholarship

examinations competitive the and at University

were

four

at

ob the

he had

four

years

and

forwards

old

man's

yearshim of

ago histhat Giulia He found !.

on

back gone his "affairs," medical skill

and that all said, do had not been wanting.

Giulia younger

Examinations.

tained

he

.as

play-ground. The

known

to

work.

its

banks

had

Livorno seven news had reached and gon-in-law's death visit when

wards

died

he brought

and

was

Antonio

and buried, in his arms to th epalazdno

a bundle of goods had with prepared hands.

like he

his

own

The doctor knew the story,

and .the parish priest the old and humored man dark him after the by visiting doctor for there was very seldom, to be done— the priest more nothing the must learn for child the often, " ilottrina and the be pre lamb pared for the approaching meeting with the Good Shepherd. —

of

foresof all

mio

thou

For

Pupils

for

years his

by

in an lay dying hospital. her, and her little Antonio, also, alas stricken with the terrible' wasting disease that had now nearly finished

was

Upstairs

pale

least seven crutches

None

treasure.

goods

child

_.?

his

Downstairs but cob nothing webs and confusion. Darkness pre in vailed the old shop and back rooms in which were piled every kind of rubbish low bought at miserably and sold for exorbitant sums prices to the poor and needy.

the

is

!

to a bed covered up eider blue silk down under which lay a boy whose quilt, face showed him to be at intelligent

be

there were ounces of truth in many the pound of gossip, the judgment of these wise women might have been reserved if they could have followed

and

25,000

run

5,

Reference,

SpigOi and they say she and her baby died by the road side after her was brave husband killed in Africa !' So- wagged the tongues of the idle and though ones, it must be owned

to

at

at

Canning,

run

ex

man Hast groaned. ? I have 'See, anything thee used to the cake thou brought some to most, and liqueur fancy heart ,fi<jlio mio .' strengthen thy poor For here was the child of the castoff Giulia. First for his dead wife, when Giulia was then for born, and Guilia, when afterwards, Giulia married' a contadino poor instead of a count a prince as or. he would have had her, from sheer force of habit and had Giuseppe scraped saved, bought cheap and solid dear, and laboured and now late, early

after

Giovanni

Giuseppe

5,

he

Rosary,

hurried

a

The

nudging

crone,

trying

he's4

25,000

CUP,

vita

wanted

November.

7th

Fleminton,

run

at-5,

HANDICAP,

CUP, 50,000

hide what his but "it a is pastrano, cake to make mouthsugared your water and a flask of Chartreuse.' '

list

10,000 at

CUP,

ANNIVERSARY

he

prize

CUP, 5,000

CANNING

The

Perth.

of

:

weakness

Barrack-st.,

monster

!

!

CHARLES).

J.

his "Raising Lassoferrato's

man.

Holyanxiously

welcome

t

to

table

richlymade no

?"

that

l's

al

copy

Madonna

with

'

it.

friend, under

:

t

as

had a tray with lemon ice, and a peas, Not a nujlese penny francs could he have

quails, of zuppa plate less than ten

Look

PERTH.

STREET,

old

soft the

of

He

.

last

He

toasted

die

& Co.

the a

claimed

PURSER

III).

>

crank

a

on

Lady '

beg crusts, broken lamp to

a

from

he!

Ma

:

withered

restaurant

to

sell

taken

for

u$,

'

bad

Not

write

marble

a

another

step thick velvet-pile carpet, be he might outside, Madonna Mary seemed to

to

safe

\

be,

paid

Best

!

night of Marchetti's

out

You

on

into His

room.

there

eyes

(C/o

newly

her has

not

in

>

Ark, been

have

might

coming dearest

!'

"He

'

the

in

time

'

it's

might

the

old head

after

yet

that

Nonna

dark

and

Noah

quickly

smile

he he

which

sound on the and whatever

do

that

it

went

furnished

the

on

hidden

coat

in

"

kind

.

he

rooms

upstairs into, anyone in a old hat

let

may mend

of its

Implement

.

goes have

'

BEST

.

away won't

,

be the

to

down

Putting he

?

in

town

PROVE

CAN

%

the

over

an old 'What "crank" Sora. Sofia would exclaim friend, Nonna Giuditta. he has millions believe of lire

he

dressing-gown he had his for old hat hurriedly exchanged aifd with a pcistrano, passed tray the cake and liqueur. holding

& seeder

.

Yet very few connect the building the old miser of Via with S. Lucia.

worn

cultivator WE

not know the for sick children and the Santo

-

...

sectional

velvet portiere, in a brightly coloured and smoking cap,

?

description

And

with

,

'

.

among

-

the

gossips of S a sea-port town on the Mediterranean, did not know old broker Giuseppe, and dealer in second-hand goods of

'

lamp's richly carpeted a door with clad Giuseppe,

!.

shone on a and through

heavy

Who

inaccessible stair

room,

a narrow Giuseppe, A hanging land

vestibule

1

of this

out

to

DRAKE and

Ironmongers BUILDERS'

&

&

GENERAL

IREQUISITES, ROLLED

Agents for Johli & weather

Merry

Danks Sons',

STEERS, 351

Importers, GALVANISED STEEL

&

TUBES GIRDERS

Ltd., Son, Fire

London,

&

FITTINGS &

(All

Perth.

Street,

Hay.:

BRASS

IRONMONGERY,

"

PLUMBERS

Sizes),

Melbeurne

Brigade Appliances.

;

To-night

little

brown

-eyes

soft ful

FITTINGS,

rather

Alston's

Windmill.

Telephone

358.

Antonio's had "

expression. timidly, head

black hand which

"

"

against

large,

wist

strangely

Nonno," he

as

was

a

he

said

laid his the old

man's

his

lace-

smoothing

curly

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