The main street was very narrow--the houses so close together that a donkey loaded with brush-wood could hardly scrape through--and so steep that he had hard work to get a foot-hold on the smooth, worn stones serving to pave it. The buildings were all of that sombre gray stone so picturesque in paintings, and so pleasant for the eye to rest on, yet withal suggesting no brilliant ideas of cleanliness or even neatness. The houses were rarely over two stories in hight, the majority only one story, and but very few of them boasted glazed window-frames, board-shutters letting in light or keeping out rain. Two twists through the narrow streets, or rather alleys, a right-angled turn, a wheel to the left, then straight forward thirty steps, and lo! they were in the inn, alias _locanda_, of Gaetano. As soon as rooms could be given them, our artists, spite of its being daylight, took a long nap, induced by traveling all night without sleep. About noon the landlord, Gaetano, aroused them with the fact that dinner was ready. They made a hearty meal, the landlord being careful to wish them 'good appetite' before they commenced. When it was over, and they were about to rise and go forth to discover if there was a cafe in the town, the waiter-girl appeared with two large dishes, on one of which were green peas in the pod, and on the other goat's-milk cheese. 'I know what the cheese is for,' said Caper, 'but it seems to me an odd way, to send in peas for the guests to shell for them.' 'Perhaps,' said Dexter, 'as they've no opera-house here, it's one of their amusements.' 'Can you tell me,' asked Rocjean of the stout waiter-girl, 'what we are to do with those peas?' 'Eh? Why, Signor, they are the fruit. You eat them.' 'Pods and all?' 'Certainly; they are very sweet and tender.' 'No, thank you. You can take them away. Will you send the _padrone_ here?' In came the landlord, and then and there a bargain was struck. For forty cents a day, he agreed to give them individually: First. Breakfast, consisting of eggs, bread, butter, fruit in season, one dish of meat, a pint of good wine, and a cup of coffee. Second. Dinner; soup, boiled meat, roast meat, vegetables, bread, butter, fish occasionally, one pint of wine, salad, dessert. Third. Supper; one dish of meat, bread, butter, salad, and pint of wine. Fourth. A bed-chamber for each one, with the use of the main room. It was moreover agreed and covenanted, that for the extra sum of two baiocchi each one, he would provide a cup of coffee and sugar after dinner.