The Springdale news., 1889-03-22
4 FINE HAUL OF FISH.
A Spanish Tale of Aragon by Don
 Don Pedro de Alarcon.

Covered Nita glory and with wounds In the War of tHe Succession and without penny in hiz purse, as in those days was tae ease Wzth most warriors and heroes. the neble scion Of Me4ainenza returned aae aas to his dismantled castle. t9 rest from the harsh fatieues of the camp aud cat in peace the lentfls that came with lis title.
 Two word let os give 10 the sol dier and other two to Lis birth-place. Don Jaime de Nequaenza, Baron ot that name. Wbo Lad fought as q Cap tain for the interests of Louis the Fourteenth, 8a7 atth#t day | man of fyc=agdsthtrty years. tail, handsome, reua4. brave 4za e4= sat.e; Etttle let tered, bat iofia and gallant to the last degree 8ith women particularly fond. indeed. of zzett5= peasants. Add to this th he @sls sa orphan an only child. | bachelor. azsd 8aa have the picture ef tHe Aeaz9Haze H.a8I5a. As to his eastIe. il wa tAe same as its master. barring 5R ss1 51a. Bat as To solitariucss. pride and poverty t was ottehtrd t1.1n It uts not, for t has er8mble#t te a=e8F generations sine Figure it, ha.i-baiIt, hali-eat from solid rock l4pped on one side by the waves of the Ehro, and on the other leaning again | | mountain that taweFad skE#aad.
 AftHe loot af tHis rock was 2 dozen cots and hoEets. tenaated b9 the vas sals 0f the Baron. or t might rather be said by the HUsbaudmen who tiled the few fields left b lis possession. From tle hamlet to the castle the road climbed hs faaFtaeu or fifteen steep terraces. ah2se which was a moat. with its diaH bridge; the moat filled by a canal or wide ditch that tapped the Ebra aleaSae 10 the narth- ward, and then fel, below the for tress, in noisy torrent back into the swelling river.
 Perehed on an almost inaee9Ssib1e flank of the mountain. separated by this channel from the castle, aud. like 1t, hanging ab0ye the Ebra. there was another rocky spun. crowned by q cabin and a lttie garden. which in that spot suggested tEe hanging gar deus of Babylon \ heavy beam of walnut wood sHaaned tHe foamne eur rent between the caste and tAe cabin, connecting these. a. the draWbridge afforded communication between the castle and the hamlet.
 On the lordly erae, then, dwelt Don Jaime de MeqHineHz8 and on the feudal rock an eel=tisher, who had won q rich reeeHne fremtheaa aaeine thought of building his hut in that lonely and menaciHg -rot. IL had occurred to Damian, for such was the name of the fisherman, to swing from thc little bridge two vast nefs, through whose meshes swept the torrent, 50 that the teeming eel9 that rushed through the cutting. toward the mother waters of the Ebre, were eaHHht here en their eourse back to their hirthzp nee. and held for the hand of the fisherman, who, although he se}a them at low enough price. yet derived from his slippery source a veHy respectable in- come.
 Yet for al his labor aad enterprise the poor fellow could never save a eHarto He ~as not drlH1er, for all the cold and wei eharaeteraf his basi- ness he Was not | plazer indeed, he knew not the terms Of hriaea, con quicn, or mailla; Iris cj4azr5s were of the commoncst soet. and cost him the merest tFitie. and for womankind. he had not so much as q passing glanee, save only for Carmen.
 Save only But then, carup, hom 5re! that was sufficient exception For oh, Carmen Gafmeia, Carmelita, Here was enough ta I##9aeF the revenues Of an aIeatae a resiior, prince -let alone tisherm.-9 tor Carmen was beauty spanish blonde, think of that, ye eoaa8iz=eaf5i who would have tempted Saat Anthony himself, if the grace of G. haad have been withdrawn fra la lar q moment. Such a waist neck such ankles! Ana taaa knew her oeu good points Bshe .tfen, and women ef such Meri. f n Iote vita themselves Hhe4 have mol lovers -oe when they aase. for that matter -and so Carmen spent the price of all the eels in fhe Eheo on aprons. ker- p15ipF. N,Tt-,t5l .tps{ fa