THE land of Italy is shaped like a boot, and at the toe of the boot lies a three-cornered island called Sicily. It was famous in ancient times for its cities, temples, and palaces; for its fruit-gardens and cornfields; and for its great volcano called Etna, from the top of which a cloud of steam and dust ascends, and sometimes a fiery stream of molten rock flows down. Sicily has often been shaken by earthquakes, but the worst of all was the earthquake which destroyed the town of Messina at Christmas 1908.…
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