A Beautiful Italian Legend.
It is a beautiful story that in one of the old cities of Italy, the King caused a bell to be hung in a tower in ono of the public squares, and called it " The Bell of Justice, 11 and eo'nmnnderl that anyono who had beea wiongorl should go and ring the bull, and f-o call tho ma^is-ti.jte of the city and ask and receive ju-tuo And when, in the course of time, thu !u«rr end of the boll rope rotted away, a wil.J vine was tied to it to lengthen it ; and on.-> rluy an old auti starving hor-e, that, had been abandoned by its owner and turned out to die, wat,dered into tho tower, and, in toying to eat the vine, rang the bell. And the magistrate of the .•i!,y, coming to gee « ho rang the bell, found this old and starving hor3e ; and he caused the owner of that hor^e, in whose service he had toiled and b< on worn out, to be summoned before him, and decreed that as hi* poor hcr«e hod mng the boll for justice ho should have j'i-t,v'\ and that during the hcr-eV hfe his ov r- e - should provide for l.im pronec food and drink - 1 r;ah!< ,
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 178, 13 November 1886, Page 7
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210A Beautiful Italian Legend. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 178, 13 November 1886, Page 7
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