Chapter 57
The Metal PigIN the city of Florence, not far from the Piazza del
Granduca, runs a little street called Porta Rosa. In this street,
just in front of the market-place where vegetables are sold, stands
a pig, made of brass and curiously formed. The bright color has
been changed by age to dark green; but clear, fresh water pours
from the snout, which shines as if it had been polished, and so
indeed it has, for hundreds of poor people and children seize it in
their hands as they place their mouths close to the mouth of the
animal, to drink. It is quite a picture to see a half-n***d boy
clasping the well-formed creature by the head, as he presses his
rosy lips against its jaws. Every one who visits Florence can very
quickly find the place; he has only to ask the first beg
