The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-02-15

] .ountains in great contempt, saying
these hotels We're as nothing to the
Spanish posadas, that the people here
would rob you if they dared, whereas,
on t'other side, not q Spaniard would
take so much as the hair of your horses
tail, though he We're at the last extrem-
ity that the food was not fit for aught
but Freuchman and SO forth. And
our Moll, catching this humor did also
turn mp her nose at everything she was
offered and would send away bottle
of wine from the table because twas
not ripe enough, though but few
weeks before she had been drinking
penny ale with relish, and that as sour
as vorjuice Aud indeed she did carry
it mighty high and artificial wherever
respect and humility were to be COM
manded.
But it was pretty to see how she
would unbend and become her natural
self where her heart was touched by
some tender sentiment, how she would
empty her pockets to give to any one
with a piteous tale, how she would get
from her horse to pluck wild flowers by
the roadside, and how, one day, over
taking poor woman carrying a child
painfully on her back, she must have
the little one up ON her lap and carry it
till we reached the hamlet where the
woman lived, etc. On the tenth day we
staid at st. Denys, and, going thence
the next morning, had Travelled but a
couple of hours when we were caught
in violent storm Of hailstones, as big
as peas, that was swept with incredible
force by wind rushing through a deep
ravine i'll the mountains, so that twas
as much as we could make headway
through it and gain "A village which lay
but a little distance from us. And here
we We're forced to stay all day by an
other storm of rain, that followed the
hail and continued till nightfall. Many
others besides ourselves were compelled
to seek refuge at our inn, and among
them o company of Spanish muleteers,
for it seems we were come to pass
leading through the mountains into
Spain. These We're the first Spaniards
we had yet seen tsave the dom, and for
Nc ilbNi llNtllu w iIltll tIttlI, We
could not admire them greatly, being IA
low browed, coarse featured, ragged
crew, and more picturesque than clean
ly, besides sinking intolerably of gar
lie By nightfall there was more com
Danv than the inn could accommodate
nevertheless, i'll respect to our quality,
we were given the best room in the
house to ourselves.
About s o'clock, as we were about to
sit down to supper, the innkeeper comes
in to tell us that a Spanish grandee is
below, who has been travelling for hours
in the storm, and then she asks very
humbly if our excellencies will permit
her to lay him Il bed in our room when
we have done with it, as she can bestow
him nowhere else (the muleteers filling
her house to the very cockloft) and has
not the heart to send him on to ST. De.
nys in this pitiless driving rain. To this
Don Sanchez replies that Spanish gen.
tleman is welcome to all we can offer
him, and Herewith sends down q
mighty civil message, begging his com
pany at our table.
Nipii JN6t Niilp w NhiP ph q BitSt
Of finery, and we to put on our bes
manners, when the landlady returns
followed by stout, robust Spaniard
in an old coat several times too sinai
for him, whom she introduced as Doi
Lopez de Calvados.
Don Lopez makes us a reverence, ant
then, with his shoulders up to his ear
Ill. 1,
at some length, but this, being Spanish
is as heather Greek to us. However
Don Sanchez explains that our visitor il
excusing his appearance as being force,
to change his wet clothes for what tn
innkeeper can lend him, and so we
| grinning to express our amiability, al
| sit down to table and set to-Moll wit
her most finicking, delicate airs am
graces, and Dawson and l silent a
frogs, with understanding nothing O
the dons' conversation. This, we lear
from Don Sanchez after supper, ha
turned chiefly on the best means @
crossing into Spain, from which it ar
pears there are two passes through tn
mountains, both leading to the sam
town, but one more circuitous than tn
other.
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cause 'ne iorh'er is usea py 'he mui'
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