The Springdale news., 1889-05-31
A FINE HAUL OF FISH.
A Spanish Tnie of hraqon by Don
 Don Pedro de Alnrcon.

covered With glory and With wounds in the War Of tile Succession and without q penny in his purse, as in those days Was the case with most warriors and her cs. the noble scion of NeGuincnza returned one day to his dismantlcd castle. to rest from the harsh la;iguca oi tho camp and eat in peace the lcutils that came with his title.
 Two words let us give to the sol dier and other two 10 his birth-place Don Jaime de Mequinenza, Baron of that name, who had fought as a Cap tain for the interests of Louis the Fourteenth. was at that day man of five-and-thirty years, tall, handsome, rough, brave and energetic; little let tered but ioyial and gallant to the last degree With wonl on particularly fond, indeel, oi pretty peasants. Add to this that he was an orphan. an only child, bachelor, and you have the picture ot tho ArarOncsc hidalgO AS to his castle, 1t was the same as it's master, barriag iu strength But as to solitarincs5, pride and poverty 1t was not bahind him. It trns n0t, for it has crumblol to decay generations since. Figure 1t, half-built, half-cut from Q solid rock, lappgd on one sido by the waves Of tho E5ro. ard on the other leaning against mountain that lowered siIywa1d.
 At the foot Of this rock was q dozen cots and novels. tenanted by the vas sals of the Baron, or it might rather be said by the husbanfIneu who titled the few fields left to lis possession. From the hamlet 10 tho castle the road climbed by fourteen or fifteen steep terraces, abo,c which was a n0at, with its at-Awbrld-e; thc moat filled by canal CT wide ditch that tapped tho Ebro aloaguo to the north ward. and then fell, below the for tress, in a noisy torrent back into the swelling river
 Perchod on an almost inaccessible flank M the mountain, separated by this channel from tho castle, and. like
 
 another rocky spur crowned by Q cabin and little garden, which in that spot suEgcste1 tAo hanging gar denS of Babylon. 4 heavy beam Of walnut wood sTHnrc1 the foaming cur rent between lh9 c,tst and tha cabin, connecting tllcan, as tho draw 7rid4e afforded communication between tho castle and the huln.et
 On the lordv crag. then. dwelt Don Jaime de Mcquiuenza and on tho fcudal rock &n eel-f5hcr, who had won 2 rich revenue tn m the daring thought of building his hut in that lonely and monaciug arct. II hAl occurred to Daminn, for such was tao name of the fisherman, 10 swing from the little bridge two vast Lota, through whose ncahls swept tac torrent, 50 that tho tecming cels thu rushed through tho cutting toward the mother wator5 Of the Ebro, wore r5ueht horo on their courae b@c.l to tI.air birth place, and held ior tlIe ha..3 Of the fisherman, who, although la ro'd them at a low enough price, ye, derived from his slippery source vory respectable in- come.
 Yet for an hia labor md enterprise the poor feIio@ could never save cuarto. lie Wao net a thinker, for all the cod and wct character Of his busi- ness; Ne wat not q playcr-indeed, no knew uot jho terms of b7isca, con quicn, or mailla; his rqGrros were ot the crnlnono5t sort. and cost him tho mcrest trifc; onl ioc wonankind, lie had not so much Gs C passing glance, save only for Carmen.
 Save only, But then, carry, hon 5rc, that Was sufficient exception. For oh, Carmen Carmela. Carmelita! Here was enough to sqnuNdcr the revenues Of an alcalde. ? rogidor, a princo-let alone f5leruan, For Car1ncn was bcauty-a Spanish blonde, think of that ye conr4isaenr5' who would have tempted 6aint Authory himself, if the grace of tsJd should have been withdrawn frota Him for moment Such waist, such ? neckl such ankles! And Carmen knew her own good points none better, and women of such merit as here fall in love with themselves whon they have not lovers -or when they have, for that matter and so Carmen spent the price of MI the ecls in the Eh-o on aprons, ker- chiefs, earrings. ribbons and fallals in