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UNDER THE SHADOW OF ETNA.

grapes said, 'How beautiful you are, racinedda mia,' my little grape!"

"Ohè! hands off, compare Turiddu!"

"Are you afraid that I will eat you?"

"I'm not afraid of you or of your God."

"Eh! your mother was from Licodia, we all know that! You have quarrelsome blood. Uh! How I could eat you with my eyes!"

"Eat me then with your eyes, for we should not have a crumb left, but meantime help me up with this bundle."

"I would lift up the whole house for you, yes, I would!"

She, so as not to blush, threw at him a stick of wood which was within reach, and by a miracle did n't hit him.

"Let's have done, for chattering never picked grapes."

"If I were rich I should try to get a wife like you, gnà Santa."

"I shall never marry a crowned king like gnà Lola, but I have my dowry as well as