The difference, though slight verbally, is an all-important one.

The workmen in Rome are not Romans, for the Romans proper never work.

The Campagna is tilled in winter by groups of peasants, who come from the Marches, in long straggling files, headed by the "Pifferari," those most inharmonious of pipers.

In summer-time the harvest is reaped and the vintage gathered in by labourers, whose homes lie far away in the Abruzzi mountains.

In many ways these mountaineers bear a decided resemblance to the swarms of Irish labourers who come across to England in harvest-time.