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THE STRAND MAGAZINE
An Illustrated Monthly
EDITED BY GEORGE NEWNES
Vol VII., Issue 41.
May, 1894
Antonio's Englishman
Zig-zags at the Zoo
Stories From the Diary of a Doctor.
From Behind the Speaker's Chair.
A Bohemian Artists' Club.
Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives.
The Oxford and Cambridge Union Societies.
Illustrated Interviews.
Martin Hewitt, Investigator.
Beauties:—Children.
Löie Fuller—The Inventor of the Serpentine Dance.
The Three Gold Hairs of Old Vsevede
The Queer Side of Things.
Transcriber's Notes
"HE RUSHED THROUGH THE POOL OF BLAZING OIL."
(See page 456.)
Antonio was young, handsome,and a gondolier. Helacked but two things; a gondolaof his own, and anEnglishman. He was toopoor to buy a gondola, andthough he occasionally hired an old andextremely dilapidated one, and trusted to hishandsome face to enable him to capture aparty of foreign ladies, his profits had to bedivided with the owner of the gondola, andwere thus painfully small. The traghettobrought him in a few francs per month, andhe picked up other small sums by serving assecond oar, whenever tourists could be convincedthat a second oar was necessary. Still,Antonio was desperately poor, and he andhis young wife were often uncomfortablyhungry.
Now, if the Madonna would only send himan Englishman, even if it were only for asingle year, Antonio could easily save enoughmoney to buy himself a beautiful gondola,besides living in the lap of luxury. Hisbrother Spiro had owned an Englishman foronly seven months and a half, and alreadyhe was a capitalis