Our Little Spanish Cousin

s five years old and had no other brother or sister to play with, for Pablo, his wonderful big br

hted, and begged to see her; and when all his relatives on both sides o

or the Spanish are very warm-hearted and affectionate. So Fernando was glad to see all his a

said, "The house is yours, se?ora!" to each one; so, as boys generally copy their fathers, Fernando assured his littl

res Concepcion Isabel Inez Juanita. This seems a long name for such a tiny little mite, but there was a reason for every single name, and not one could be left out. Nearly all Spanish children are named Maria, whether boys or girls, because the Spaniards are devoted to the Virgin Mary, and as the baby was born on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, she was called Concepcion. Isabel was for her aunt, and Inez was for her godmother, and Juanita fo

ng cords, and also the alpagatas, or sandals, which the peasants wear; and the fibres of the leaf are separated from the pulp and made into many things to wear. The central stem of the aloe grows sometimes twenty feet high, and it has a number of stems on the ends of which grow

pain, as he came along on the other side of the hedge, and Fernando re

her out," said the American, and when he finally extricated one

pple you over." After that Fernando alway

inkle sounded like sleighing-time in America. The reason for this is that in many places the streets are too narrow for two carriages to pass, and the bells give war

ED IT UP TO HER

a pail. Into this the man looked, and taking out a piece of money which lay in the bottom, he milked the pail full from one of the goats, and the owner pulled it up to her window again.

tle iron balconies, to some of which palm branches were fastened, blessed palms from the ch

did things for the state in the olden times. The house had several balconies, from which hung down long sprays of blossoms, for every balcony railing

e nursery, and Fernando, no longer a baby, but a big boy with a baby siste

ich protects from the sun, yet leaves the patio open to the fresh air and sweet scents of the sunny out-of-doors. All the family gather in the patio, and it is the favourite lounging-place

ast was to Fernando! There was much laughi

th was drunk, and her godfather proposed her health

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, and so with laughter and merrime