San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-15

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wouid have us rehearse our old songs TO
our new music. So, singing my guitar
in front of me, Iput it in tune, and Jack
ties his bundle to his back that he may
try his hand at the tambourine. And so
we march along singing and playing as
if to feast, and stopping only to laugh
| prodigiously when one or other fell out
| of tune-the most mad, light hearted
fools in the world-but / speak not of
Don Sanchez, who, feel what he might,
never relaxed his high bearing or unbent
| his serious countenance.
One thing remember Of him ON this
| journey Having gone about five miles,
we sat rs down ON a bridge to rest
awhile, and there the don left us to go
little way up the course of the stream
that flowed beneath, and he came back
with a posy of sweet jonquils set off
with delicate kind Of fern very pretty,
and this he presents to Moll with gra-
cious little speech, which act, it seemed
to me, was to let her know that he re-
| spected her still as young gentlewom-
an in spite of her short skirt, and Moll
was not dull to the compliment either,
for. after the first cry of delight in
seeing these natural, dainty flowers,
she loving such things beyond all
else in the world, she bethought her
to make him courtesy and reply
to his speech with another as good
and we'll turned, as she set them in her
waist scarf. Also I remember ON this
road we saw oranges and lemons grow
ing for the first time, but full mile
after Moll had first caught their won
drous perfume in the air. And these
trees, which are about the size of a crab
tree, grew in close groves on either side
of the road, with no manner of fence to
protect them, so that any one is lief to
pluck what he may without let, so plen-
tiful are they, and curious to see how
fruit and blossoms grow together on the
same bush, the lemons, as / knew, Civ
ing four crops in the year, and more de-
licious, full and juicy than any to be
bought in England at six to the groat.
We got dinner of bread and cheese
livery high) at a roadside house and glad
to have that, only no meat of any kind,
but excellent good wine, with dried figs
and walnuts, which is the natural food
of this country, where one may 60
week without touching flesh and yet
feel as strong and hearty at the end, and
here, very merry, Jack in his pertina-
cious, stubborn spirit declaring he would
drink his wine in the custom of the
country or none at all, and so squirting
it all over his face, down his new clothes
and everywhere but into his mouth be-
fore he could come to do it like Don
Sanchez, but, getting into the trick of
it, he so mighty proud of his achieve
ment that he must drink pot after pot
until he got as drunk as any lord. So
after that, finding retired plaoe-it be-
ing midday and prodigious hot, though
only now in mid April-we lay down
under the orange trees and slept a long
hour, to our great refreshment. Daw-
son, on waking, remembered nothing of
his being drunk, and being not a penny
| the worse for it, And soon another long
stretch through sweet country, with
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terranean in the distance of a surprising
blueness, before we reached another
town, and that ON the top of high hill
But it seems that all the towns in these
parts (save those armed with fortresses)
are thus built for security against the
pirates, who ravage the seaboard of this
continent necessarily from end to end,
and for this reason the roads leading up
to the town are made very narrow, tor
tuous and difficult, with watch towers
in places, and many points where few
armed men lying in ambush could over
whelm an enemy ten times as strong.
The towns themselves are fortified with
gates, the streets extremely narrow and
crooked, and the houses massed all to-
gether, with secret passages one to an
other, and network of little alleys lead
ing whittier only the inhabitants know,
so that If an enemy got into them it's
ten to one he would never get out alive
Here Jack and his daughter gave a
show of dancing, first in their French
suits, which were vastly admired, and
after in their Spanish clothes, but they
then were asked to dance fandango,
which they could not However, we
Jared very well, getting the value of 10
shillings in little moneys, and the inn
keeper would take nothing for our en-
tertainment, because of the custom we
had brought his house, which we con-
sidered very handsome on his part.
We set out again the next morning,
but having shown how we passed the
first day l need not dwell upon those
which followed before we reached BARGE.
Iona, there being nothing Of any great
Importance to tell. Only Mon was now
all agog to learn the Spanish dances and
I cannot easily forget how, after much
coaxing and wheedling ON her part, she
at length persuaded Don Sanchez tC
show her fandango, for surely nothing
in the world was ever more comic thar
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