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ways; and they arc loyeablo for their
n,atchless docility fidelity, one and

mstchless docility fidelity, one and
all.
When the Gullcgan youth has arrived
at tho ago OF eighteen, lie goes to his
drudgery at sen, In tho army, or MS tho
city inenlal. lie suffers every conceiva-
bic indignity without resentment. "Gal-
Logan dog !" is the mildest universal cpl
tibet applied to him. Kick him and lie
will not even cringe. No power Cali
tempt him TO resent insult, or break
law, butte deprive him OF his earnings.
lie will not squander dozen rois in q
whole year. lie will siarye to gayc. lie
will do anything but rob or murder
while Mt service to increase his hoard;
and though his inconsistencies for his
mountain dulcinea, perro aud gaila are
so often go despairing that lie
dies Of heart.acho and longing he
never will return TO his beloved
Galicia until he has earned enough to
possess his own choza and patch OF
ground. This is his only earthly am.
bition and he seldom fails OF its realiZa-
ton. Thousands OF others gain this
accomplishment MS segadors or reapGrs.
When the southern fields are ripe
whole armies Of Gallegan reapers set
out from their mountain homes armed
with the short llOz or sickle, their
wooden shoes slung over their should.
ers, something ms the West OF Ireland
men annuallysct forth for the English
harvest fields, and, carrying also their
gaitas with them, pipe their way to the
south, where they reap the grain Tor
the indolcnt farmers OF Castillo and
Portugal. Returning OH foot rs they
went, they wake wild and barbaric
echoes through the Sierra dc Ia Culebrc,
Sierra dc B.naderio and tho fair Mon.
taros dc Leon. The Gallegan women
meantime have cared for their own
little harvcsts, and from autumn until
spring-tilne, save for the occasional
droning Of the bag.pipc, the crack OF
the rctaco or blunderbuss, and the
wolllsh barking OF tho mountain dog,
sodden silence and liieless sleep seem
to have knit all Galiciu into forbid
ding and gloomy web OF leaden and OBJ
duratc rcpose. ra.
But see these maiden water-carricrs
of Lisbon, prettiest OF all women in the
ancient city-with great dancing eyes,
pouting lips ever parting from dazzling
white teeth, their tongues ceaselessly:
running in musical staccato, and their
supple forms over in irrcpressible move
mcnt from the boundlcss life within
them. Their short skirts disclose limbs
which outrival the Venus OF Cos in
delicate symmetry. Their smart bo-
dices yainly hide busts OF marvellous
roundness and amplitude, with full
arching neck barred above, and browning
it such Il dainty and dimplcd chin rs
even Tuscany cannot match; while the
line from tip OF little finger up their
brown round arms 10 beyond the dim
Piled elbow is IL marvellous study in
natures only perfect mobile bronze.
But they have dallicd and chatted long
enough. With a whisk little pad OF
rushes or cloth is slapped on their
dainty, shapcly heads; in twinkling
the great cask, half as tall and quite us
big as they, is resting on the pad and
with 4 song or rognish laugh they are
away, tripping homeward as daintily
and airily us in measures OF the con-
tradanza or waltz.
EDGAR L. WAKEMAS.