Near This Confectioner's Was A Booth Where Boiled Sweet-Potatoes Were Sold, With Oranges And Joints Of Sugar-Cane, And, Spitted On Straws, That Terrible Fruit Of The Strawberry Tree Which We Had Tasted At Honda Without Wishing To Taste It Ever Again.

Yet there was a boy boldly buying several straws of it and chancing the intoxication which over-indulgence in it is said to cause.

Whether the excitement of these events was too great or not, we found ourselves suddenly unwilling, if not unable, to walk back to our hotel, and we took a cab of the three standing in the plaza. One was without a horse, another without a driver, but the third had both, as in some sort of riddle, and we had no sooner taken it than a horse was put into the first and a driver ran out and got on the box of the second, as if that was the answer to the riddle.

II

It was then too late for them to share our custom, but I am not sure that it was not one of these very horses or drivers whom we got another day for our drive about the town and its suburbs, and an excursion to a section of the Moorish aqueduct which remains after a thousand years. You can see it at a distance, but no horse or driver in our employ could ever find the way to it; in fact, it seemed to vanish on approach, and we were always bringing up in our hotel gardens without having got to it; I do not know what we should have done with it if we had.

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