Part 4 (1/2)

[Illustration: Fig 86]

[Illustration: Fig 87]

Next to her is a hunchback, who is present as a fahs to please the coers Two other illustrations of this action, theleft the thuesture by itself has, like others nifications, but hereus for subdued applause, less violent than clapping the two hands, but still oftener to express negation with disdain, and also carelessness

Both these uses of it are common in Naples, and appear in Etruscan vases and Ponificance of the action in the hand of the contemporary statue of Sardanapalus at Anchiale is clearly _worthlessness_, as shown by the inscription in assyrian, ”Sardanapalus, the son of Anacyndaraxes, built in one day Anchiale and Tarsus Eat, drink, play; the rest is not worth _that_!”

[Illustration: Fig 88]

The bridegroom has left his mother to do the honors to the bride, and hi one of the 88, which is notto the ers represents the body of the colass flask which the Neapolitans use, the extended thu its neck; the invitation is therefore specially to drink wine The guest, however, responds by a very obvious gesture that he don't wish anything to drink, but he would like to eat so that coar Italians If the idea were only to eat generally, it would have been expressed by the fingers and thumb united in a point and moved several times near and toward thethe strings of89--Quarrel between Neapolitan woroup isone of her forood fortune, promenade in a fine costume with her husband Overcome with jealousy, she spreads out her dress derisively on both sides, in imitation of the hoop-skirts once worn by woreat lady!” The insulted woman, in resentn of horns, before described, which in this case is done obviously in menace and i to get into a woman's quarrel, and is very easily held back by a woroup He contents hi his finger, which gestureof the teeth and biting the lips in anger, co 90--The cheating Neapolitan chestnut huckster]

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In Fig 90 a contadina, or wos (shown to be such by her head-dress, and the forround), accosts a vender of roast chestnuts and asks for a measure of them The chestnut huckster says they are very fine and asks a price beyond that of the market; but a boy sees that the rustic woainst the cheat He therefore, at theto lean upon his basket, andthus a little behind the huckster, so as not to be seen, points hier under his eye, pulling down the skin slightly, so as to deforainst a cheat_, shown n pri person, and metaphorically one whose looks cannot be trusted, even as in a squinting person you cannot be certain in which direction he is looking

[Illustration: Fig 92]

Fig 92 shows the extremities of the index and thumb closely joined in forers held at pleasure, and the hand and arnifies _justice_, a just person, that which is just and right The san may denote friendshi+p, a ht to justice, and snuff, ie powdered tobacco; but the expression of the countenance and the circun deterin is clearly the balance or e physical weight, and thence co clearly what is just and accurate and what is not The hand is presented in the usual h articles

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Fig 93 signifies _little, suratively, as of a sree of talent, affection, or the like It is made either by the point of the thumb placed under the end of the index (a), or _vice versa_ (b), and the other fingers held at will, but separated from those mentioned The intention is to exhibit a small portion either of the thuesture is found in Herculanean bronzes, with obviously the sans made by some tribes of Indians for the sas 94 and 95

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Fig 96 is sienerally bent inwards and pressed down by the thumb, as esture if the forefinger is distinctly separated fro out, as it is over all the world, from which comes the naer In different relations to the several parts of the body and ar, attention, eneral

[Illustration: Fig 97]

Fig 97 represents the head of a jackass, the thu the ears, and the separation of the little fro the jaws

[Illustration: Fig 98]

Fig 98 is intended to portray the head of the sa laid upon each other, with thu on each side to represent the ears In each case the thuenerally moved forward and back, in the manner of the quadruped, which, without much apparent reason, has been selected as the en, therefore,the sa 99, where the end of the thued up and down Whether the ancient Greeks had the same low opinion of the ass as is now entertained is not clear, but they regarded long ears with derision, and Apollo, as a punishment to Midas for his foolish decision, bestowed on hithy orna 99]

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