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Show Victor Emmanuel is hunting the wild boar in the Alpine valleys. He generally starts at three in the morning, morn-ing, mounted on one of the little Sardinian Sar-dinian horses, s eure footed and so ardent, and does not return until nightfall. Sometimes he loses his companions aud hunts alone. If seized with hunger, alter a long excursion, ex-cursion, he enters the house of the first peasant he meets, asks for au omelet and a pot of light wine, and while eating, converses with the host and the family round him about the neighbors, the crops and the petty incidents of the village. His quality is only known by the price which he paya for his breakfast. Where is the Italian brigand of the period ? |