Fortunately, They Played Mostly In
The Gutters, The Larger Looking After The Smaller When Their Years And
Riches Were So Few More, With That Beautiful Care Which Childhood
Bestows On Babyhood Everywhere In Europe.
To say that those Spanish
children were as tenderly watchful of these Spanish babies as English
children is to say everything.
Now and then a mother cared for a babe as
only a mother can in an office which the pictures and images of the Most
Holy Virgin consecrate and endear in lands where the sterilized bottle
is unknown, but oftenest it was a little sister that held it in her arms
and crooned whatever was the Spanish of -
Rack back, baby, daddy shot a b'ar;
Rack back, baby, see it hangin' thar.
For there are no rocking-chairs in Triana, as there were none in our
backwoods, and the little maids tilted to and fro on the fore legs and
hind legs of their chairs and lulled their charges to sleep with seismic
joltings. When the street turned into a road it turned into a road a
hundred feet wide; one of those roads which Charles III., when he came
to the Spanish throne from Naples, full of beneficent projects and
ideals, bestowed upon his unwilling and ungrateful subjects. These roads
were made about the middle of the eighteenth century, and they have been
gathering dust ever since, so that the white powder now lies in the one
beyond Triana five or six inches deep.
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