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We sent our crews ashore, and there the Frenchman's gaiety soon went into partnership with the Neapolitan's. Everywhere corricoli were to be seen galloping along carrying clusters of merry sailors.
"'It will cost you, said M. Martin, after a momentary calculation in his head, 'it will cost you the corricolo ten ducats, each horse thirty carlini, the harness a pistole; in all, eighty French francs. "'What! for ten ducats I shall have a corricolo? "'A magnificent one. "'New? "'Oh! you are asking too much. There are no such things as new corricoli.
"'Oh yes! first the saddle, then a carriage or gig, thence to a stage-coach or omnibus, hackney-coach or cab, and finally to the knacker's. "'And from the knacker's? "'To the Elysian fields, I suppose. "'No. Not here, at least. From the knacker's they go to the corricoli. "'How so? "'I will tell you.
I do not speak of that wondrous setting which will last to all eternity, but of the Naples of the Neapolitans, gay, noisy, and teeming with wit, as it was before the plague of politics fell on it, bringing divisions and gloom, and despoiling it of all its charm of originality; Naples, with its lazzaroni and its macaroni, and its "corricoli" tearing along with tinkling bells, crammed with monks and women in their costumes the Naples, in fine, of Pulcinella and of Leopold Robert.
And these are what I mean by dead horses. "'But what can they possibly do with the unfortunate brutes? "'They harness them to the corricoli. "'What! those with which I came from Salerno to Naples' "'Were the ghosts of horses; spectre steeds, in short. "'But they galloped the whole way. "'Why not? Les morts vont vite." Et cetera, et cetera.
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