This table-top cost the labor of one man for ten long years, so they said, and it was for sale for thirty-five thousand dollars.
We went to the Church of Santa Croce, from time to time, in Florence, to weep over the tombs of Michael Angelo, Raphael and Machiavelli, (I suppose they are buried there, but it may be that they reside elsewhere and rent their tombs to other parties--such being the fashion in Italy,) and between times we used to go and stand on the bridges and admire the Arno.

It is popular to admire the Arno.

It is a great historical creek with four feet in the channel and some scows floating around.

It would be a very plausible river if they would pump some water into it.

They all call it a river, and they honestly think it is a river, do these dark and bloody Florentines.