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    A Traveller , Accommodated With A Robber

    in , but I ham and t the him . also intent was too bread on heed table to the Francisco on a low was very was goodI too much sat to stool . This repast acceptable—the had taken ham care used in I had a oil too much oil was not used in the dressing , and had a famous appetite after so long a ride . I strolled out as the horses were finishing their meal . From every house the song resounded , and busy were the housewives at their tasks .

    We resumed our way . The sun had visibly inclined to the west , and the monotony of the journey became tiresome ; not , however , to Francisco , who ,

    with true after-dinner vigour , seemed to bring forth all the songs in his stock , prolonging the last notes till his breath almost failed him . Our road now changed its character . Before , occasional houses and olive trees were seen , and the

    plough , drawn by oxen , attended behind by a man scattering the grain . But the ruggedness of the ascents , and changed character from the dead level plain to the gradually rising ground , showed we were ascending that long ridge of mountains that bounds

    the western side of the great plain of Granada . We had passed a slight elevation , and our horses were slowly plodding their weary hot way , when my ear caught the long-drawn yo-o-o-o and _ya-a-a-a of the song of a traveller behind . He soon overtook us , for his

    A Traveller , Accommodated With A Robber

    beautiful young travelled much horse was creature , norse was a _Deautnui young creature , and travelled much faster than ours . The greeting between us passed as usual , and he fell into conversation with Francisco , affording me leisure to observe him . He

    wore the customary steeple hat , a dark-brown short jacket , short tight breeches , and leather leggings , which fitted his somewhat fat but powerful frame well . From his saddle

    hung a long musket , of such formidable dimensions , that it almost trailed the ground ; and the barrel was covered . halfway up with mud . The first time you see a man of this sort in Spain you inevitably think of the robbers in Gil Bias :

    and curiously enough , not only his countenance , but a little bit of a " deed , " corroborated the likeness ; but of this anon . His beard was unshaven and red ; and he bore the appearance throughout of having been somewhere where the means of

    cleanliness were not highly available : —yet it was Monday , and the Spaniards are certainly a cleanly race of men . He sat his horse with that negligee air , leaning now to one side , and now to the other , as if conscious of the superiority of his steed and himself to

    the animals usually encountered on the road . Nevertheless there was considerable good-humour in his countenance , and his voice was clear and loud in his conversation with Francisco , who , however

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/58/