And as for the children they're shameless.
They've been taught to look upon tourists as their prey.

If you go near the gate dozens of little hands are poked through the railings and an absolute shriek of 'soldi' arises.

It spoils people's enjoyment to be so terribly pestered by beggars.

And the more you give them the more they ask." "They're having a try at somebody else now," remarked Rachel, watching the crowd of small heads leave their vantage ground of the railings and surge round a carriage which drove up.

"Some other tourists are coming to see the sights--two gentlemen and three ladies, very glad I expect to show their tickets and get through the gate out of the reach of that rabble.