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Question
Why was the author surprised to see Nicola and Jacopo working as shoeshine
boys?
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Solution
Because he had first met them while they were selling wild strawberries and therefore assumed that was their trade, seeing them the next morning bent over shoeshine boxes surprised him; it revealed that, rather than having a single job, the two boys did many kinds of work to earn money.
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