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UPON A BLUE FIELD LAY VALLADOLID
THE TOWERS OF SEGOVIA
MADRID BY NIGHT
INTRODUCTION
Cada puta hile .--SANCHO PANZA.
THE SPANISH JADE
THE PLEASANT ERRAND
His eyes, as he sang, roamed the sun-struck land, and saw everything as it should be. Life was a grim business for man and beast and herb of the field, no better for one than for the others. The winter corn in patches struggled sparsely through the clods; darnels, tares, deadnettle and couch, the vetches of last year and the thistles of next, contended with it, not in vain. The olives were not yet in flower, but the plums and sloes were powdered with white; all was in order.
When a clump of smoky-blue iris caught his downward looks, he slipped off his ass and snatched a handful for his hat. "The Sword-flower," he called it, and accepting the omen with a chuckle, jumped into his seat again and kicked the beast with his naked heels into the shamble that does duty for a pace. As he decorated his hat-string he resumed his song:--
"En batalla temerosa Andaba el Cid castellano Con B?car, ese rey moro, Que contra el Cid ha llegado A le ganar a Valencia..."
He hung upon the pounding assonances, and his heart thumped in accord, as if his present adventure had been that crowning one of the hero's.
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