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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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r people may have had dif- A Second-Class Trip into Spain 589 ferent impressions. If you are of thefemale sex, never wear a short skirt, asailor or English walking-hat, unless youare willing to have people stare at you, andsometimes call after you. If you have r dhair dye it, or be prepared to be saluted asRubia. Never bow to a man, unless helifts his hat first. If you are a man, youmay dress as an Englishman, an operatictenor or a chorus singer from Carmen,without exciting remark. Never wearglasses; if you are blind, take to a dog on to-morrow; or, gently murmur that Godwill reward him, whereat he will smile,thank you, and depart. These same beggars, which spring up onevery side, seem to have a code of etiquettewe could not fathom. After two or threedays, there were a few who begged onlyfrom me, two or three others who besoughtJean. Evidently we were understood tobe the patrons of certain beggars who, outof a crowd of mendicants, were the onlyones to approach us, who would take their
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Spanish milkman—always smoking. a string. When you sit down at the table,or arise, always bow and say, Buenas,this is imperative. You may jostle peoplewithout apology, but never speak to anyone without saying your grace, be henoble, friend, or beggar. Will your gracedo me the favor to bring me my coffee atnine oclock to-morrow, would strike anAmerican bell-boy with dismay. But it isthe literal translation of the Spanish re-quest. Never tell a beggar to clear out,but say that you have left your purse athome, and that you will remember him dole with thanks, or if we said to-mor-row, would, smilingly, back away at once.A trip into Spain ought to mean morethan sketches of life, as we saw it, in asingle city. Yet it was our pleasure tolinger on in Madrid—with the exception ofthree days spent in Toledo and the Es-corial—for the whole of our two monthsholiday, and to return direct to Paris with-out seeing any of the southern country sobeloved by other tourists. So, can anyone wonder th

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