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Excerpt from In the Days of the Romans This sketch gives some idea of a street corner of old Pompeii. Ruts are worn into the stone paving. A narrow sidewalk is provided. The stone fountain is a common sight, for only wealthier people had water piped into their courtyards. The entrance of a food shop is wide open. One woman is weighing some thing for her customer. All sorts of supplies hang on the walls or from the ceiling. All shops were small. They were closed at night by doors that were pushed up or folded back during the day. Such shops are still com mon in Mediterranean lands. In towns and cities, only the wealthier people had water piped into their own courtyards. Most people filled their water jars at public fountains which were built in all parts of the city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.