All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life

All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home LifePERHAPS one of the most...
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Author: Bell, Lucia Chase
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All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life

All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life

€6,25

All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life

€6,25
Author: Bell, Lucia Chase
Format: eBook
Language: English

All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life

PERHAPS one of the most vivid impressions which the tourist receives upon his entrance into any Spanish city whatsoever, is of its muscular beggarsmen of enormous size, with their ruffianly swaggering strength exaggerated by the national cloak. This garment is of heavy, tufted woollens, long and fringed, almost indestructable, and is frequently worn to muffle half the face; and the broad slouch hat, usually with a couple of rough feathers stuck in its band, does not tend to soften the general brigandish effect. These beggars are licensed by the government, which must reap a goodly revenue from the disgraceful crowd, as they are numerous, and therefore they pursue their avocation in the most open manner. They will frequently follow the traveller a half-mile, especially should they find him to be ignorant of that magic formula of dismissal which is known to all Spaniards: This appeal is constantly on the lip of every Spanish lady. She utters it swiftly, without so much as a glance, a dozen times of a morning on her way to church, as a dozen gaunt, dirty hands are thrust in her face as she passes; and hearing it, the most persistent fellow of them all is at once silenced, and falls back. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67560
Author: Bell, Lucia Chase
Release Date: Mar 5, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: D. Lothrop Company
Publication Date: 1892
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Contributor (Author): Converse, Frank H., Pratt, Ella Farman, 1837-1907, Stockton, Louise, 1838-1914


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