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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
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his medicine. If I can but add another peso to it, I will goto see him. Farther down the canon, where the great walls were spread apart with abroader space between, was the corral, — a pen with walls of rock and a wicketgate. As Bernalito opened the gate, his little flock poured forth tumultuously,and took the narrow path to the pasture-land, while Fidencio, the nightlyguardian of the fold, leaped upon him and frisked about with barks of wel-come. The boy was glad to see his sheep again; he followed them to therocky pasture, and sat down, while Fidencio lay at his feet. The dog waspuzzled, for his master had not received him with his usual cheerful greeting;he winked his big brown eyes sorrowfully, while his cars drooped and his tailhung limp. Bernalito was revolving a scheme in his mind, — a scheme bywhich his father might have news of the Medico that very week. He wouldleave Fidencio to care for the sheep, and go to the garden, and there dig out nvf rr>. .,• _^m,r/ \f lilt
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A FAMILY OF MENDICANTS. ON THE WAY TO GRANADA 231 ■®t- ■•■£ yams enough to sell in Cordova on the next day. At the same time he wouldcontract with the doctor to cure his fathers blindness. There seemed to himno wiser plan ever conceived in the world, and he hastened to put it into execu-tion. Fidencio received his orders gravely enough, and sat up erect on a rock,where he could command a view of the pasture; but he followed with askingeyes the movements of his mas-ter, and entirely ignored the mor- JTTT5 ^ ■sel of meat left for his dinner. An hour later, Bernalito wasin the garden beyond the forest,where he began to work with-out delay. It was more difficultlabor than he had expected, forthe wilder vegetation had almosttaken possession of the garden,and nearly choked out the maizeand banana plants by their rankluxuriance of growth. So theday drew near its ending, thebackload of yams was gathered,and when these had been col-lected and carried (in a nettedsack of twine) to t

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