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Title: Our little Spanish cousin
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Nixon-Roulet, Mary F
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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ake place but three times ayear. Fernando and Juanita were struck 70 Our Little Spanish Cousin dumb with the beautiful cathedral, so unlikethe Gothic one of Granada; for this one atSevilla is a Saracenic church, built hundredsof years ago, begun by the Moorish Sultan,Yakub al Mansour, in 1184. How strange it seemed to see dancing inchurch! Fernando and Juanita sat besidetheir mother, on their little camp-stools, forthere are no pews in Spanish churches. Thewhole centre of the church is empty, and peo-ple kneel there during the mass, or if they aretoo tired or too little to stand, they rent camp-stools for half a cent, and an old woman whohas them in charge hobbles along with a stool,which they may keep while the service lasts. The men generally stand, and it is interest-ing to see them settle themselves in a com-fortable position when the sermon begins, andstand there almost without moving while thepreacher speaks, sometimes a half-hour, some-times a whole hour. But the hearers do not
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THEIR BODIES SWAYED TO AND FRO IN TIME TO THEMUSIC. Easter in Sevilla 71 seem to mind, for these Spanish monks arevery fine preachers. As the children gazed at the beautiful altarcovered with flowers, there came the soundof music, — violins, flutes, flageolets, and haut-boys all making a quaint harmony,— and withthe music was mingled the sound of youthfulvoices, fresh and sweet, and a band of boysentered the chancel, and gliding down thealtar steps danced quietly, singing as theydanced. Their bodies swayed to and fro intime to the music, at first slowly, then, asthe time quickened, castanets click-clicked withthe other sounds, and the boys moved fasterand faster, still in perfect time, yet not withwild abandon, but rather with dignified respectfor the place. They were quaintly dressedin the court costumes of the Middle Ages; ontheir rfcads were big Spanish hats, turned upat one side with a sweeping blue feather, amantle of light blue was over one shoulder, 72 Our Little Spanish Co

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