Our Little Spanish Cousin

ober, "to-day is the feast-day of the head master, and we have a

, Manuel says that he will take me if you will permit me, and, if Juanita's nurse could be sp

after luncheon I will drive thither with the little one, and leave you for an hour while

drive with his mother in school hours was a pleasure seldom indulged in, and a visit to the great hill which crowns Granada was treat enough, but to take Ju

he narrow streets of the city up the steep and h

rful castle in Spain, ni?a," said Fernando to Juanita, and the two

ard at school, ni?a, s

in a pri

lers roun

nake of sa

ll the lies

deringly. She thought all that Fernando said

pleased to have given a riddle which sh

, for it is the tongue which makes much mischief in this wor

her said, laughingly, "Really, Fernando, I don't see wh

that handsome is as handsome does!" sai

s the carriage made a turn, and some

r, and it was years and years in building. He says the Moors used to have the castle and the city of Granada, and I read in my history of how the Catholic king,

things to the captives they took, that it is not surprising

I cannot see, for they already had many wives, and I should think one was enough for any man. Where shall

cried Fernando; and Juanita said, "Please leave me, too

d he and his sister, Pepita, have never been away. He is to go to the English s

tments of the boy's father are," she said to Manuel, who sat upon the box with the coachman. Further inquiry, however, was not necessary, for, as t

ando. "Antonio, come here

onio's cap was off in a trice and he smiled and bowed as Fernando presented him to his mother and little sister. Antonio was a handsome boy, with eyes as dark and blue as the sap

ou for a visit," said the se?ora, graciou

y mother has prepared a little luncheon in the Garden of Lindaraya at fou

me and I shall myself prolong my visit with my friends at the villa," she re

AND SEEK THROUGH

e two little girls were quite happy together, and the boys did not consider themselves too big to play with them. They played hide and seek through the marble halls, and tag and chaser about the flower beds. The little girls played house and made mud pies, although Dolores objected to this and told Juanita that she would be as dirty as the "caseada de Burguillos"[3] if she were not more careful. Juanita thought Pepita was wo

ambra. They were full of the most beautiful flowers

places. But besides them there were great trees of purple heliotrope, the blooms as large around as Juanita's big hat; and ger

iny cups, and cakes in the daintiest of shapes. What a merry picnic it was beneath the shade of the great orange-tree which Antonio told them had been there for over a hundred yea

anita begged, "Do please tell us one, Antonio," and as nobody could ever resist the