enough in Spain to be aware that in the nineteenth century it is as unusual for a Spanish nobleman to take an active part in the bull-circus, as it would be for an English one to show off

he was engaged

g, threw light on the opposite side, where a large space of boarding had been taken advantage of by the bill-posters of Seville.

XTRAORDINARY

Don Alcala de Aguilera, mounted on his superb charger, will encounter

a light touch on the shoulder. Turning round, he saw a stout personage, who from his black robe, huge hat with flap

smaller type, and therefore not so conspicuous, appeared close to the announcement of the bull-fight in the Plaza de Toros. The attenti

his frauds and machinations should prevail. We say this, because we have read with profound grief, in a periodical lately published, that the Protestant Bible Societies and Associations for the distribution of bad bo

the charge of the Bishop of Cadiz left a deep impression on Lucius. Others then were actually doing the work from which he had shrunk. Others were coming forward, like Gideon's three hundred heroes moving bravely on through the darkness. Already t

ht Lucius, "of which I never knew till this moment. Not all

head of a board loaded with a repast more profuse than elegant, was too much engaged with his double occupation of eating and talking even

usiness! And I paid the fine gentleman his quarter's salary only last week! Don Alcala de Aguilera is no great loss to the firm, for he took his very

headpiece, though," ob

usiness. Save in that matter of the translation yesterday;-I told you that capital story! ho, ho, ho! I see now how twenty dozen bulls came to be running in the poor fellow's head

m enough, and too much, I'm af

s explosive mirth had sufficiently subsided; "he'd contrive to get double pay for double work, by w

as one of the guests. "Folk say that there is some

t a cannon-ball instead of promotion, one can only say that the poor fellow has had the worst of the bargain. But a man who is willing to run the chance of being gored or tossed for the sake of the prettiest girl that ev

d; he could not trust him

pport, are mightily distressed at his venturing as a picador into the Plaza de Toros. I hear that he has a poor old grandmother,

t eager voice which had exclaimed, "Alcala, is it you at last?" The young Englishman thought of his own favourite

or the current business of the day. The untasted viands lay before him; he cared not to touch food, though he had fasted since the morning. Luciu

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slation of the charge, given in "Daybre