: The Old Pike A History of the National Road with Incidents Accidents and Anecdotes Thereon by Searight Thomas B Thomas Brownfield - Cumberland Road; Pennsylvania Biography

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I PAPPINA PIERNO 7

II THE CONQUEST OF GUISEPPE 29

V AT CAVA 77

VI HARDSHIPS AT SALERNO 97

X NAPLES AND A NEW LIFE 162

THE PUNCHINELLOS

PAPPINA PIERNO

It was away up in that part of Naples called San Lucia, where clothes seem forever hanging out to dry, that Pappina lived with the rest of the Pierno family, a tribe too large to enumerate.

Pappina was only seven years of age, but she was different from every other child living in dingy, dirty San Lucia. Few even of the grown people of the neighborhood cared to be clean, and as for their hair--why, they paid no attention to that, but let it go as it found itself. But Pappina took delight in combing her silky black hair and in washing her beautiful face and dimpled hands.

This was a wonder to all who lived near.

Only when she sang and danced and the people gathered around her did she seem to take much notice of her neighbors.

Pappina's love of beauty sprang from her eager little heart like a sweet flower from a patch of rich earth on a rocky hillside.

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