she would take the poor flowers, and putting them next her heart, keep them where it is forever warm—­’as the young man on your left knows very well!’ he concluded.  This speech was received amid loud applause and cheers, and thanks for the roses and an invitation to take a pull at the barrel.  Caper waved them Adio, and as our trio turned Rome-ward from the fair, the last things he saw as he turned his head to take a farewell look, were the roses that the Italian girl had placed next her heart.

THE TOMBOLA.

The exceedingly interesting amusement known as the Tombola is nothing more than the game of Loto, or Lotto, ‘Brobdignagified,’ and played in the open air of the Papal States, in Rome on Sundays, and in the Campagna on certain saints’ days, come they when they may.

The English have made holiday from holy day, and call the Lord’s day Sunday; while the Italians call Sunday Lord’s day, or Domenica.  Their way of keeping it holy, however, with tombolas, horse-races, and fire-works, strikes a heretic, to say the least, oddly.

The Roman tombola should be seen in the Piazza Navona democratically; in the Villa Borghese, if not aristocratically at least middle classically, or bourgeois-istically.

In the month of November, when the English drown themselves, and the Italians sit in the sun and smile, our friend Caper, one Sunday morning, putting his watch and purse where pick-pockets could not reach them, walked with two or three friends down to the Piazza Navona, stopping, as he went along, at the entrance of a small street leading into it, to purchase a tombola-ticket.  The ticket-seller, seated behind a small table, a blank-book, and piles of blank tickets, charged eleven baiocchi (cents) for a ticket, including one baioccho for registering it.  We give below a copy of Caper’s ticket: 

     No. 17 D’ORDINE, LETTERA C.

     CARTELLA DA RITENERSI DAL GIUOCATORE.

8      12      32      87      60
20       4      76      30      11
45       3      90      55      63

The numbers on this ticket the registrar filled up, after which it was his duty to copy them in his book, and thus verify the ticket should it draw a prize.

The total amount to be played for that day, the tombola being for the benefit of the Cholera Orphans, was one thousand scudi, and was divided as follows: 

Terno,.................... $50
Quaterno,................. 100
Cinquina,................. 200
Tombola,.................. 650
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$1000

How many tickets were issued, Caper was never able to find out; but he was told that for a one thousand dollar tombola the number was limited to ninety thousand.