We Liked Far Better The Pretty Alameda Rising In Terraces From It With Beds Of Flowers Beside The Promenade, And Boys Playing Up And Down, And Old Men Sitting In The Sun, And Trying To Ignore The Wind That Blew Over Them Too Freshly For Us.

Our policeman confessed that there was nothing more worth seeing in Tarifa, and we entreated of him the favor

Of showing us a shop where we could buy a Cordovese hat; a hat which we had seen nourishing on the heads of all men in Cordova and Seville and Granada and Ronda, and had always forborne to buy because we could get it anywhere; and now we were almost leaving Spain without it. We wanted one brown in color, as well as stiff and flat of brim, and slightly conical in form; and our policeman promptly imagined it, and took us to a shop abounding solely in hats, and especially in Cordoveses. The proprietor came out wiping his mouth from an inner room, where he had left his family visibly at their _almuerzo;_ and then we were desolated together that he should only have Cordoveses that were black. But passing a _patio_ where there was a poinsettia in brilliant bloom against the wall, we found ourselves in a variety store where there were Cordoveses of all colors; and we chose one of the right brown, with the picture of a beautiful Spanish girl, wearing a pink shawl, inside the crown which was fluted round in green and red ribbon.

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