It was offered round the town at a tremendous reduction, so I am told; and was eventually sold for eighteenpence to a bilious-looking youth who had just been advised by his medical men to go to the sea-side, and take exercise.
Seppi che andò in giro per venderlo a enorme ribasso! e per caso potè sbarazzarsene per trentasei soldi a un giovane d’aspetto bilioso che era stato appunto consigliato a girare in mare e a far moto.