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fling price. It is for the moll part only boiled in wa* 

 ter, and the grated cheefe melts wMi it, and feafoiis 

 the difli. At every corner dmoft of the principal 

 fixeets ftond paftry-cooks, with their pans of boiling 

 oil, particularly on faft-days, cooking fifh and paltry 

 for their calual cuftomers, who drop in, in incredible 

 fhoals. Thefe fellows fttpjriy many thoufand perfons 

 with their dinner and flipper ; which they Carry away 

 on a piece of paper. The Halls of thefe frigitori, are 

 fplendidly fet forth on the day of St, Jofeph, their pa- 

 tron. The Hied is decorated with the image of the 

 faint, and with a number of pictures representing fouls 

 fufFering the pains of purgatory ; as an allulion to the 

 flames on which the fifh are dreffed. A large pan is 

 heated over a fire ; .one man is making the pafte, and 

 another is putting the .pieces into the boiling oil ; but 

 the perfons of both, who with large two-pronged forks, 

 are heaving out the cakes and pyes, are the molt re- 

 markable: they reprefent angels ; but how they repre- 

 fent them is what no man would guefs. 



Guided by the Idea that angels muft have large flow- 

 ing golden locks, they put flaxen full bottomed perri- 

 wigs on the heads of the boys who are to appear as an- 

 gels in the folemn proceflions ; perhaps thefe perriwigs 

 .are became bald by age and repeated fervice, or per- 

 haps they are not always to be had with their proper 

 complement of curls; in lhort, in a country where, 

 generally fpeaking, every one wears his own hair, only 

 the aflbciated ideas of perriwigs and angels have re- 

 mained, and the main idea of flowing locks is totally 

 loft : fo that thefe two fellows, who withal are as rag- 

 ged as any blackguard in Naples, think it quite fufH- 

 •cient for fupporting their dignity as angels, if they can 



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