text:  and off he goes slung on a pole with a drummer before and a drummer behind to disturb every street and alley in Palermo till he is got rid of; not that the stationary market is quiet; for the noise made in selling the mutest of all animals is in all countries really remarkable; but who shall do justice to a _Sicilian_ Billingsgate at _mezzogiorno_! "_Trenta sei trenta sei_ " bawls out the Padrone cleaving a fish in twain with one stroke of an immense chopper kept for the purpose