Remarks On Antiquities Arts And Letters During An Excursion in Italy in the Y
Remarks On Antiquities Arts And Letters During An Excursion in Italy in the Y
Joseph Forsyth
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The Italian postilions are now forbid- den to wind their horn or even crack their whips, which had served too long as a call to robbers. On entering FONDI we drove to the custom- house, where a tall castrone sat muffled up to his nose in a cloak, basking over a pan of charcoal a modern edition of the scribe who amused Horace at this town. Advancing solemnly with a pen at his ear, he fell into argument with a Neapolitan advocate, one of our party, and pretended to teach him the law of Naples. Th...eir altercation was at first civil enough, till the lawyer, ashamed of his opponent, called him a musicotto. " Do you know whom you insult ?' ' cried the man of office ; " I am here the organ of government. " " And a well-toned organ thou art, " said our companion, " the prettiest treble that I ever heard in a cus- tom-house. "' This poor joke cost him dear; for the vindictive scribe returned to the charge, and condemned a small package which had occasioned 268 JOURNEY TO NAPLES. the dispute to be carried by express to Naples at the punster's expense.
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