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A GIRA THROUGH SICILY. 
ever I meet that man on Pennsylvania avenue, it is my set 
tied intention to do him personal violence. 
As to the sparky little postillion who drove us so furiously 
out of Catania, and who afterwards fell asleep when there 
was nobody on the roadside to admire his driving, I have him 
safe enough. Here he is. Public indignation is respectfully 
solicited: 
The individual mounted upon that horse, swindled us out 
of two carlins. What he did with so much money it would 
be impossible to say; he may have put it in his boots for safe 
keeping; but he certainly could not have deposited his ill- 
gotten gains in his coat-pockets. I only know that we paid 
him the sum above specified for doing certain duties that he 
never performed ; and that implicit confidence is not to be 
placed in a man simply because he wears a feather in his hat, 
