Word: cuocino
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Santa Severina land is divided into good and less good zones. The best is an irrigable portion called Maestria because it needs skill to work it. The least desirable includes the land of San Francesco e Marucaro and some parts of Vallegrande. Then there are the middling lands, the Cuocino, partly dotted with olive groves. Nocella drew a poor San Francesco plot. A long sigh went through the crowd. The next name drew a middling plot. The crowd lost some of its tenseness...
Tonight, a Prayer. It was past noon before Amerigo Marescalchi drew the middling lands of Cuocino and the pasture land Serra di Barracco. Still uncertain, he rushed home. When he caught sight of his wife Concetta in the doorway of the small, smoke-darkened room they share with eleven relatives, he cried, "It's Cuocino! It may be not much good as farming land but we can build a house there. It has rocks and I know how to blast stone. It will save us our rent, 2,000 lire a month." Concetta had tears in her eyes...
...near sundown before the lottery was over, and Ente Sila's tired, bright-eyed Ezio Conti could show Amerigo his exact plot of land. They walked to a sandy path overhung with crumbling redstone cliffs. Below on the left stretched the land of Cuocino. With a tremor in his voice for the first time, Amerigo said: "It's somewhere down there...
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