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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 676

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up to it are many scores of stonesteps, too many to climb, so at the foot of thesesteps are ciceroni (guides) with little donkeys sad-dled, which carry people safely and easily up to thedome for a few granos apiece. Is not that a novelkind of elevator ? In the afternoon, Guiseppi would go to the… … ot the ground floor) there are sometimes from »hty to one hundred marble steps leading up. 1 this floor perhaps a duke may live ; on the next ove, some one lower in rank, till it would not be possible that the noble dukes laundress might e in the seventh story of his palazzo. These permost families…

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