Excerpt from Patchwork, Vol. 3 of 3 At the best hotel in and in the best room - for we had all to ourselves to choose from - the furniture consisted of two broken-down bedsteads, without a trace of posts or curtains - three chairs, one deal table three feet in diameter, sashes without glass, and floors without mat or carpet. For tunately we had taken the precaution of bringing an iron bedstead and mosquito curtains, not to mention sheets sewed into the form of a bag, which is the only barrier against the nocturnal enemy so prevalent in Sicily. For the rest, the profound stillness of the country village proved a delicious contrast to the uproar of Catania; though the sound of the bells of Santa Agatha still rung in our ears. 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.