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Translated by D. H. Lawrence TURIDDU MACCA, son of old Mother Nunzia, when he came home from being a soldier, went swaggering about the village square every Sunday, showing himself off in his bersagliere's uniform with the red fez cap, till you'd have thought it was the fortune-teller himself come to set up his stall with the cage of canaries. The ...

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Translated by D. H. Lawrence They had bought him at the fair at Buccheri when he was quite a foal, when as soon as he saw a she-ass he went up to her to find her teats; for which he got a good many bangs on the head and showers of blows upon the buttocks, and caused a great shouting of ...