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well behaved and polite as usual though
somewhat restless. In the garden the tortoises
continued impassive to ponder upon their own
problems, the mongoose was too busy to give
way to his curiosity. The little owl sat blinking
with half-closed eyes on his perch, thinking of
something else. Billy, being an unbeliever, was
shut up in the monkey-house, from where he
kept up an infernal din, shouting at the top of
his voice, banging his water-bottle against his
tin bowl, rattling his chain, shaking his bars and
using the most horrible language.
Back to the Piazza where Sant’Antonio saluted
by a tremendous detonation of crackers was
reinstalled in his shrine in the church and the
procession went home to their macaroni. The
band sat down to a banquet offered by the
authorities under the pergola of the Hotel
Paradiso, half a kilo of macaroni per head,
vino a volontà. At four the doors of San Michele
were flung open, half an hour later the whole
village was in the garden, rich and poor, men,
women and children and new-born babies,
cripples, idiots, blind and lame, those who
could not come by themselves were carried on
the shoulders of the others. Only the priests
were absentees, though not by any fault of theirs.
Prostrated by their long wanderings, they leaned
back in their choirstalls behind the High Altar
in fervent prayers to Sant’Antonio, audible
maybe to the Saint himself in his shrine but
seldom to anybody else who happened to look
into the empty church. A long row of tables
with huge piretti of San Michele’s best wine
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