Scattered far and wide in a dusty wilderness, stand the little huts of the officers, vigilant on every road or by-way to wring the wretched soldi from toilsome hands.

As became their service, I found these gentry anything but amiable; they had commonly an air of _ennui_, and regarded a stranger with surly suspicion.
When I was back again among the high new houses, my eye, wandering in search of any smallest point of interest, fell on a fresh-painted inscription:-- "ALLA MAGNA GRAECIA.

STABILIMENTO IDROELETTROPATICO." was well meant.

At the sign of "Magna Graecia" one is willing to accept "hydroelectropathic" as a late echo of Hellenic speech..