I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.
From Richard H. Davis
Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.
I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.
I went out to the Derby on Wednesday and think it is the most interesting thing I ever saw over here.
I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.
As soon as I landed at Malta I found that though I could go to Tunis I could not go away without being quarantined for ten days and if I remained in Malta I must stay a week.
I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.
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