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often consists only of a waistcoat, has in it not
sufficient costume for such rags.
But we see it in the North. By the canal
road between the Venern and Vigen, on the
bare, dry rocky plain there stood, like beauty’s
thistles in that poor landscape, a couple of
beggar-boys, so ragged, so tattered, so
picturesquely dirty, that we thought we had Callot’s
originals before us, or that it was an
arrangement of some industrious parents, who
would awaken the traveller’s attention and
benevolence. Nature does not form such things:
there was something so bold in the hanging on
of the rags, that each boy instantly became a
Capitano de Baroni.
The younger of the two had something
round him that had certainly once been the
jacket of a very corpulent man, for it reached
almost to the boy’s ancles; the whole hung fast
by a piece of the sleeve and a single brace,
made from the seam of what was now the rest
of the lining. It was very difficult to see the
transition from jacket to trowsers, the rags
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