Four Months Afoot in Spain

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Harry Alverson Franck. Four Months Afoot in Spain

Four Months Afoot in Spain

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

A 'TWEENDECKS JOURNEY

CHAPTER II

FOOTPATHS OF ANDALUSIA

CHAPTER III

THE LAST FOOTHOLD OF THE MOOR

CHAPTER IV

THE BANKS OF THE GUADALQUIVIR

CHAPTER V

THE TORERO AT HOME

CHAPTER VI

TRAMPING NORTHWARD

CHAPTER VII

SPANISH ROADS AND ROADSTERS

CHAPTER VIII

ON THE ROAD IN LA MANCHA

CHAPTER IX

THE TRAIL OF THE PRIEST

CHAPTER X

SHADOWS OF THE PHILIPS

CHAPTER XI

CRUMBLING CITIES

CHAPTER XII

WILDEST SPAIN

CHAPTER XIII

THE LAND OF THE BASQUE

CHAPTER XIV

A DESCENT INTO ARAGON

CHAPTER XV

EMIGRATING HOMEWARD

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Harry Alverson Franck

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"Yes, they all does," he mourned, "for one day. But 'ow if you 'ad always to bask on the stewin' old Rock, like a bally lizard? Saint Patrick! If only some toff 'ud pay me a ticket to America!"

He entered a great room, divided by thin wooden partitions into a score of small ones, and, tramping down a hallway, lighted me into the last chamber. Opposite the cot was a tall window with heavy wooden blinds. I flung them open and leaned out over the reja; and all at once, unheralded, the Spain of my dreams leaped into reality. Below, to one side, flowed the murmuring stream of Gibraltar's main thoroughfare; further away the flat-roofed city descended in moonlit indistinctness into the Mediterranean. From a high-walled garden a pebble-toss away and canopied with fragrant fruit-trees, rose the twang of a guitar and a man's clear voice singing a languorous air of Andalusia. Now and again a peal of laughter broke on the night and drifted away on the wings of the indolent sea-breeze. I rolled a cigarette and lighted it pensively, not in contempt for the "super's" orders, but because some transgression of established law seemed the only fitting celebration of the untrammeled summer that was opening before me.

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