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Title: Rambles in sunny Spain
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Ober, Frederick A(lbion), 1849- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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length of taper wound about a small tablet sup-ported on short legs, and where the hundred tapers sticking up lookedlike the heads of so many coiled snakes. An old man was twistino-cordage under the shadow of the church, and a group of washerwomenwere having a lively time at a fountain in an angle of the road. Wewandered through the cool streets, took photographs of the picturesquebits, and then retired to a cafe overlooking and overhanging the waterwhere we sat awhile and took in the beauty of the sunset-lighted bay.The place was famous for its chocolate and wafers; but we did notget any, because the girl delayed waiting upon us until our patiencewas exhausted and we left. Little scenes like this, simple, restful, fullof happy incident, are part of our Spanish legacy. We love to dwell 48 RAMBLES IN SUNNY SPAIN upon them, walk in imagination through the cool plazas, and converseagain with the courteous, simple-minded people. Striking southward from San Sebastian, let us gather up some
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A FAMILY OF TRAVELLING MUSICIANS. scattered links in the chain of cities leading to Madrid. At first, evenfor a whole days journey by rail, the scenery is suggestive of Swissand Alpine regions ; the road leads through numerous tunnels, winds SOUTH THROUGH LEON AND CASTILE. 49 over hills and through valleys ; hills and valleys green and fruitful, thewhite houses of the farmers and the husbandmen gleaming on thehillsides. Not many cities, but forests of oak and chestnut, andbroad fields of grain, with here and there a mountain overlooking,—such is the character of the central of the border provinces of Spain;in the east they are more arid, and in the west more rugged. Three hundred miles from Madrid we find Vitoria, celebrated inmodern history as the scene of Wellingtons great victory over theFrench in 1813, when he drove Joseph Bonaparte, nicknamed PapaBote (or Father Bottle), flying toward the border, and recaptured im-mense plunder which the miserable French had taken from convents

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