Note 10 — SMALLER GHOST AND TREASURE STORIES AND FAMILY AND LOCAL TRADITIONS.
Reading edition
‘One day she saw three silver papetti10 on the floor. It wasn’t that there was no silver money ever to be seen, and nothing but dirty paper notes, and half of them false, as it is now o’ days. It was in the time of the Pope, and there was plenty of silver for those who had money at all, but still, to see three silver papetti lying on the floor all of a sudden was a sight for anyone.