Word: maestria
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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...
...Despite regulations barring women from distribution, she had been included because all the village insisted she must have land. "She works like a man," they said. She had many children, so she was entitled to draw two lots. A great shout rose from the crowd over her first drawing: Maestria lot No. 7. On the second ballot she again drew a good lot. Someone at the back of the crowd cried: "Luck knows whom to help. Luck is always right...
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