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Title: Search for winter sunbeams in the Riviera, Corsica, Algiers, and Spain
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 1824-1889
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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er (orher descendants) carrying babies about; for the Maidof Saragossa is a mother now. I saw her bearing onher head a basket of clothes to the brink of the Ebro,for a days washing. I saw her with her face tied upas with the tooth-ache or mumps. Finally, I saw herat work in one of the cool, stony houses on the firstfloor, of a narrow street, with one of Wheeler andWilsons American sewing-machines! The heroine ofSaragossa, plying her plump little satined foot, andusing the heroic glance of her death-defying eye upona Yankee sewing-machine ! Well! well! all I can do,is to present her, as she was and is. What of the maid! Is she a myth ? Does she 43 4- Heroic Sons and Daughters of Saragossa. vanish when you approach her home ? Saragossa,from Roman days—from earliest Christian days—fromthe early wars with Goth and Frank and Moor—andlater in the French wars of 1707—and later still in theNapoleonic wars, was brave to the very death andstarvation point! Free, beyond all other Spanish
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The Maid of Saragossa. provinces—having zftiero—or magna charta, or decla-ration of independence of her own; having, in fact,republican liberty, with a congress of four branches,each a check on the others, and all jealous of monar-chical prerogative and encroachment. Aragon, whosecapital Saragossa was, became renowned for the bravery,persistence, and chivalry of her sons, in which pa-triotic attributes her daughters shared. What of the Maid ? Byron writes that theenemies of Spain were foiled by a womans handbefore a battered wall; and adds, in a note, that,6 When the author was at Seville, she daily walked on Story of the Maid of Saragassa. 435 the Prado, decorated with medals and orders, by com-mand of the Junta. We did not see her—perhaps ;but we saw many of her sisters, or her progeny. Wewent to the battered wall, near the north-west gate.There you will see the place where she fought by herlovers side. There, when he fell, she took the flamingmatch. There she worked the thund

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