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SICILY AND MALTA. 109
One of my greatest dissiculties, I see, will
be the finding proper places to write in,
for the inns are altogether execrable, and
there is no such thing as getting a room
to one's self: I am just now writing on the
end of a barrel, which I chose rather than
the table, as it is farther removed from
noise. I must therefore entreat you, once
for all, to excuse incorre&ness and want of
method. How can one be methodical upon
a barrel!—It has ever been the most de-
clared enemy to method. You might as
well expect a sermon from Bacchus, or a
coherent speech from our friend lord-—
after he has finished the third bottle. You
will be pleased then just to take things
as they occur. Were I obliged to be
stricUy methodical, I should have no plca-
sure in writing you thcse letters; and then,
if my position is just, you could have no
pleasure in reading them.
Our
One of my greatest dissiculties, I see, will
be the finding proper places to write in,
for the inns are altogether execrable, and
there is no such thing as getting a room
to one's self: I am just now writing on the
end of a barrel, which I chose rather than
the table, as it is farther removed from
noise. I must therefore entreat you, once
for all, to excuse incorre&ness and want of
method. How can one be methodical upon
a barrel!—It has ever been the most de-
clared enemy to method. You might as
well expect a sermon from Bacchus, or a
coherent speech from our friend lord-—
after he has finished the third bottle. You
will be pleased then just to take things
as they occur. Were I obliged to be
stricUy methodical, I should have no plca-
sure in writing you thcse letters; and then,
if my position is just, you could have no
pleasure in reading them.
Our