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Title: The land of the Dons
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Leonard, b. 1871
Subjects: Civilization, Spanish Spain -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Nay, even the golfillos or little urchins wholurk in countless swarms about the plaza, and whocertainly have not a centimo at all wherewith to bless(or is it curse ?) themselves, have discovered a numberof porous spots in the ironwork which ventilates theouter wall, and squeeze and clamber through a spacewhich would appear incapable of admitting a fivesball, much less a human head and body. Adventurousragamuffins ! Hence they witness, not so much thebullfight, as the historic, awe-inspiring territorywhere the bullfight is actually being celebrated. On Sunday afternoons throughout the season,and regularly between the hours of half-past threeand half-past . four, a prodigious stream of trafficroars up and along the Calle Alcala in the direc-tion of the bull-ring, a mile and a half from thePuerta del Sol. The entire length and breadthof that ample roadway is filled with every class ofvehicle that ever was built or grew into existence—for dozens of those shandrydans seem too extravagant
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CO o o Si tu XH < s as< 2: Q < THE BULLFIGHT. 173 by far to have been planned by human ingenuityor fashioned by human fingers. However, somewith six mules or horses, others with five, four,three or two, and the coches dc alqiiiler with theirsingle lean sardina, these multiform conveyanceswend feverishly towards the plaza. Omnibuses,private and public carriages, tram cars, electric andotherwise, as well as the galley-like monstrositieswhich seat four dozen desperadoes inside and onthe tottering roof, roar on and on, past the Cibeiesfountain, round the Arch of Alcala, past^he statueof imperturbable Espartero, and up full-gallop alongthe final stretch that breaks away from the Caminode las Veritas del Espiritu Santo. On they go, thosewhirring wheels, those straining beasts, those frantic,shouting, sweating, gesticulating Jehus ; on, on, inpitiless, seething, desperate, life-jeopardizing, blood-curdling competition to reach, not Heaven, or wealth,or health, or glory, but

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