San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-22

of May, for Moll would go no farther
before she had learned a bolero and a
fandango, which dances we saw danced
at little theater excellently well, but
in style quite different from ours, and
the women very fat and plain. And
though Moll, being but slight slip of a
lass, in whom the warmer passions were
unbegotten, could not give the bolero
the yoluptuous fervor of the Spanish
dancers, yet in agility and in pretty, in
nocent grace she did surpass them all to
naught, which was abundantly proved
when she danced it in our posada before
court full of Spaniards, for there they
were like mad over her, casting their
silk handkerchiefs at her feet in homage,
and filling Jacks tambourine three
times over with cigarros and a plentiful
scattering of rails.
And believe, had we staid there, we
might have made more money than ever
we wanted at that time, though not so
much as Don Sanchez had set his mind
on, wherefore he would have us jog
ging again MS soon as Moll could be
brought to it.
From Barcelona we journeyed a
month to Valencia, growing more indo-
lent with our easier circumstances, and
sometimes trudging no more than five
or six miles in day, and we We're, I
think, the happiest, idlest set of vaga-
bonds in existence. But indeed in this
country there is not that spur to exer-
ton which is forever goading us in this.
The sun fills ones heart with content,
and for ones other wants few half
pence day will suffice, and if you have
them not tits no such great matter, for
these people are exceeding kind and hos
pitable. They will give you a measure
Of wine if you are thirsty as we would
give mug of water, and the poorest
man will not sit down to table without
making you an offer to share what he
has Wherever we went we were we'll
received, and in those poor villages
where they had no money to give they
would pay us for our show in kind, one
giving us bed, another board and filling
our wallets ere we left 'em with the
best they could affbrd.
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The amount Of cotes and boleros,
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arge asthat OF laet.bu a week and
3 bett days,. ->ngering more than was
A5ssary in order to see bull fight.
And this pastime they do not as we
with dogs, but with men, and the bull
quite free, and, save for the needless
killing of horses, / think this very
noble exercise, being fair trial of ad-
dress against brute force. And tits not
nearly so brutal as seeing prize fought
by men, and not more cruel, take it,
than the shooting of birds and hares for
sport, seeing that the agony Of death is
no greater for a sturdy bull than for a
timid coney, and hath this advantage,
that the bull, when exhausted, is dis
patched quickly, whereas the bird or
hare may just escape capture, to die a
miserable long death with a shattered
limb.
From Valencia we travelled five weeks,
growing, think, more lazy every day,
over very hilly country to Alicante, a
seaport town very strongly protected by
castle on a great rock, armed with
guns of brass and iron, SO that the pi-
rates dare never venture near And here
1 fully thought we were to dawdle away
another week at the least, this being a
very populous and lively city, promising
much entertainment. For Mol, when
not playing herself, was m d to see 9TH
ers play, and she did yeally govern,
with her subtle wiles land winning
smiles, more than her father, for all his