You can read in your guide-book that whenever Vesuvius has looked as if he meant business for the past few hundred years, the people of Naples have simply called on the bishop to take out the relics of Saint Januarius and walk 'em round the town; and that's always been enough for Vesuvius.
Now the Pompeii folks didn't know a saint or a bishop by sight, and Jupiter, as Aunt Caroline says, was never properly qualified to interfere.

That's how it was, I _presume_.

I don't suppose the people of Naples take much stock in the laws of nature; they don't have to, with Januarius in a drawer.

And real estate keeps booming right along." "You have an extraordinary way of putting things," remarked Mrs.
Portheris to her nephew.

"Very extraordinary.