Identifier: landofdons00willuoft (find matches)
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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.where thePrincess is sojourning, with naked swords andmaking a fine stir. Thereupon the servant called tothe remainder of his fellows to help him against * therascals that had sought to rob him of his cloak ;and a number of them, setting on to the Marquis,notwithstanding that he said, Gentlemen, I haveno affair with you, but with him that just nowran in, compelled him to withdraw to the olderstreet of Santa Catalina, beside the house of JuanGomez de Mora, and there a servant of one of thePrincess gentlemen fired his pistol at the Marquiseldest son, who, shot in the throat, fell dead withouta word. Here, then, was a consequence attending the im-moderate use of water, even more harrowing than inthe case of Miiller. We may observe, also, a curiousside-issue. For it is admitted as a fact that groupsof objects or phenomena of almost any kind arepreferably disposable into threes. The judgment ofParis was between three candidates ; the triads ofthe Welsh bards comprised the same mysterious
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i^To face p. 60.) iFrom a photot/raph hy Segura, Madrid.)AN ARAGONESA. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 6i number; the Triple Alliance assists in regulating thepolitics of Europe ; the three Rs are familiar, in posse,if not in esse, to every schoolboy ; and here we havethe three Ws, perilous and ever-to-be-avoidedsnares besetting the intemperate—Women, Wine,and Water. Water in Spain is scarce, and yet how scarceis drunkenness. Perhaps the crowning virtue of theSpaniards is their abstinence from alcoholic liquor.In eight years I cannot remember to have seen ascore of really drunken Spaniards ; and in saying thisI am aware that I am saying a great deal, for Ihave not confined myself, as tourists are wont todo, to the aristocratic quarters of Spanish cities. Onthe contrary, I have wandered for many a long houramong the barrios bajos—the Injurias of Madrid, theNew World of Malaga, and the Vina of Cadiz, hob-nobbing with their denizens. I have found themmerr), excitable, inquisitive, or quarrelsom

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