Then the Saracens turned their attention to crockery ware, pots, pans, and water jars; forming like fruits and flowers the yielding clay, and establishing models that are every hour to be seen around one in this old nest. Clothes, too, they thought, should be made as they saw 'fit;' and, accordingly, head-dresses and dresses, under garments, &c., _a la Saracenesca_, were all the rage; and as the colors were in no wise sombre or melancholy to behold, the girls took kindly to them, and, slightly modified, wear them still. When you see the _pane_, the white cloth worn on the women's heads, remember it was once an Oriental _yashmak_, falling around and concealing the face of the Italian lady love of a Saracen; but when the Saracens departed, they rolled up the veil and disclosed to delighted Christians the features of Rita or Maria, who figured for a time as Zoe or Fatima. With their religion, the Saracens were not so successful--they could not make it popular; so they waived this point, contented with having set the fashions, and introduced their own style of music, crockery, and jewelry. Thus reflecting, Caper stopped short, regarded his watch, found it was near dinner time--the pastoral hour of noon-day--and then turned to walk down to the inn. On his way he passed a store having French calicoes in the window, and mourned in his heart to think how short a time it would be before these became popular, and the homemade picturesque dresses of the female Segnians would be discarded. The time, too, was fast coming--with the railroad from Rome to Naples--when travellers will overrun these mountain towns, and the price of board shoot up from forty cents to a dollar or two: then the inhabitants will learn geography and become mercenary, and will learn arithmetic and blaspheme (in their way) at _forestieri Inglese_, _Americani_, _Francese_, or _Tedeschi_, and cheat them. Then the peace of the Volscians will have departed, never, oh, never more to return.