If ever you make a journey into Italy, there is one thing that you will like very much indeed; and that is the mode of travelling that prevails in that country. There are very few railroads there; and though there are stage coaches on all the principal routes, comparatively few people, except the inhabitants of the country, travel in them. Almost all who come from foreign lands to make journeys in Italy for pleasure, take what is called a _vetturino_. There is no English word for _vetturino_, because where the English language is spoken, there is no such thing. The word comes from the Italian word _vettura_, which means a travelling carriage, and it denotes the man that owns the carriage, a…
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