The ashes had fallen lightly at first, but so thickly that in a very
short space of time the whole city was buried under tons of it, and
the people were crushed or suffocated in their homes.
You will find the whole story of it in the novel called _The Last
Days of Pompeii_, but if you ever go to Pompeii the ruins which
have been dug out tell their own story better than any book can do.
You walk through silent streets of beautifully decorated houses, of
shops, theatres, and baths; the pavement is scored with the wheelmarks
of the chariots, and in some of the houses the skeletons of the
inhabitants are still to be seen.
* * * * *
BOY SCOUTS OF NAPLES.
To-day the whole country around the foot of the mountain is thickly
populated, and towns and villages stand on the slopes of Vesuvius as
if there were no danger of his ever breaking out again.
And Naples itself is a great, flourishing city with big factories, and
a busy seaport where ships of every nation congregate.
And last, but not least, it has its Boy Scouts.
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