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SCENE -- _The Tombs of the_ SCALIGERS _at Verona. A seedy and voluble Cicerone, who has insisted upon volunteering his services, is accompanying_ MISS TROTTER, BOB PRENDERGAST, _and_ CULCHARD. _It is a warm afternoon, and_ CULCHARD, _who has been intrusted with_ MISS T. 'S _recent purchases -- two Italian blankets, and a huge pot of hammered copper -- is not in the most amiable of moods._
THE CICERONE (_in polyglot_). Ecco, Signore (_pointing out the interlaced ladders in the wrought-iron railings_), l'echelle, la scala, c'est tout flexible -- (_He shakes the trellis_) -- molto, molto curioso!