...states. An intelligent traveller has observed, on witnessing the Tuscan peasantry thus occupied, that " the work produces at every step the pleasing appearance...of a toil in which childish play and childish gains folfm children to habits of industry without exhausting their strength or gaiety." The women and children...

...generally continue the easy work of platting. It has been well observed of this employment that " it produces at every step the pleasing appearance of...— of a toil, in which childish play and childish games form children to habits of industry without exhausting their strength or gaiety." It resembles...

...states. An intelligent traveller has observed, on witnessing the Tuscan peasantry thus occupied, that " the work produces at every step the pleasing appearance...childish play and childish gains form children to hahits of industry without exhausting their strength or gaiety." The women and children in nearly every...