Our Little Spanish Cousin

to the bull-fight with father and

my life, and Juanita shall never attend. I wish Pablo did not care to go, either, but he must do as he wishes now that he is

st refined ladies do not frequent the corridos. The bull is turned loose in the centre of the huge ring and tormented until he is ready to fight. Men with sharp-pointed darts, called banderillos, tease him by throwing their barbs at him, and pricking his skin until he is nearly crazy. Then men mounted on horseback, the picadores, wave scarlet cloths before his eyes, exciting him still more, for a bull ha

atter of horses' hoofs. All screamed loudly, for to have a bull escape from the pens is a frequent occurrence, and not a very pleasant one. The cries became louder, the horses' hoofs beat nearer and nearer, and as in the dusk a figure dashed down the street, the se?ora, s

r, but it was only a minute before servants came from the house, and as they did so a horse dashed up before the pillars, and, stopped too hastily by his rider, slid along the stones on his hind feet. On his back was Pa

"We thought the noise was a bull escaped, and I

en threw back his head and shouted with laughter, but see

u art a good knight to care

s mother had regained

thy poor mother," but Pablo kissed her hand so gallantly, a

hat the children were like little bears in a cage. They played with everything they could think o

er, gay and charming Uncl

e country with me?" he asked, and

n make believe, and I shall take you to a

ds of flowers, and many of the things we eat come fr

d?" asked Juanita,

ave to go through so much before they can be eat

before they begin to turn soft. These are separated from the others, and the bitter taste is removed by soaking in fresh water for a long time, or some picklers soak them for a shorter time in a solution of potash lye. This softens the skin and extracts all bitterness, but the olives must be soaked in c

oil made?" a

dried a little, and then crushed. Old-fashioned stone mills are used to crush the fruit, and the ma

fter it is pressed

and another month, when the process is repeated. After the third time the oil is ready for use. The best oil i

h baskets, which are put under a press which is screwed down by five or six men, so that the oil is squeezed out, but that is a very old-fashioned way of making oil, and there are better ways now. They still use this, ho

eat so interesti

answered, "and nothing in all Sevilla is mo

t done?" as

Justinian. The silkworm is a kind of a caterpillar which feeds on the leaves of the white mulberry-tree, and lays his eggs in a kind of gummy substance on the leaves in the end of June to be hatched out in the following April. The caterpillar is small at first, about a quarter of an inch long, but grows to be thre

ilk wound? Doesn't it

is soaked in warm water which loosens the little filaments. When the cocoons are reeled the first

TO THE ALCA

e can sometime when we are here again," sa

. "There has not been such a freshet for years. Come along with me, Nando, and we will go boating

rnando, and his mother, with many injunctio

yellow oxalis, wild hyacinths, and the scarlet dragon-flower carpeted the ground, while tall white lilies, like fair maidens, and stately iris with sword-like leaves, reminding one of the knights of chivalry who once walked these paths, stood sentinel adown the walks. Fernando saw, too, the insects which flitted among the branches, beetles with bright green coats like emeralds, white and gold butterflies, birds with brilliant wings and sweet voices. B

om God loves has a house in Sevilla,'"

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