Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     Neapolitan milkmen are very funny fellows. They do not have a milkwagon and horse or even a pail and dipper. They have only little three-legged stools tied to themselves [so that when they want to sit down they are all ready,] and they drive their goats and cows before them to the different houses, and milk them at the door in a bowl provided by each customer. No chance of watered milk there, you see. That is not the queerest part of it though. Italian houses are very high-five,six,and seven stories often with a different family living on each floor. Even the palazzos [palaces] of the rich are divided in this way. To the first floor [not the ground floor] there are sometimes from eighty to one hundred marble steps leading up. On this floor perhaps a duke may live; on the next above some one lower in rank, till it would not be impossible that the noble duke’s laundress might live in the seventh story of his palazzo. These uppermost families usually take goat’s milk because the goat can go upstairs, even to the very top floor and be milked in full view of the customer.