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LOTTERIES IN SPAIN.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Nearly all the Lottery tickets in Spain are publicly sold in the streets by Beggars: and _this_ is the sort of Vagabond in MADRID to whom Our Artist confided $16 for a ticket that won a prize of $5.]
SIGHT-SEEING IN SPAIN.
[Ill.u.s.tration: There are so many hundred apartments to be seen in the famous PALACE OF THE ESCORIAL, that Our Artist is obliged to follow his Brigand of a Guide rather rapidly, in order to view them all in one day.]
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist sees from the car-window, at a Rail-Road Station near Toledo, what, at a first glance, appears to be a statue of Napoleon Bonaparte,--but: (_see next page_.)]
A RAIL-ROAD OFFICIAL.
[Ill.u.s.tration:---- the Statue suddenly becomes animated and revolves; and the side-view reveals a CIVIL GUARD, with carbine and knapsack beneath his big military cloak.]
ARCHITECTURE IN CORDOVA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: A picturesque little half Moorish and half Spanish dwelling house, in the Calle Jesus Maria; with a couple of Priests in earnest discussion.]
BALCONIES IN SEVILLE.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Sketch of a private residence in Calle San Pablo; from the upper Balcony of which, Our Artist had a rose thrown to him, while a cloaked a.s.sa.s.sin of a probable Lover, glowered savagely at him from the doorway.]
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA.
[Ill.u.s.tration: The Barber of Seville, according to Rossini's Opera, and according to the way in which he is popularly believed to disport himself.--(_See next page._)]
A BARBAROUS PROCEEDING.
[Ill.u.s.tration: The Barber of Seville, as he actually exists in that city, and precisely as he appeared while operating upon our Artist, one day, in the Calle de las Sierpes.]
A CAFe IN SEVILLE.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist discovers, one day, in the Calle Tunidores, not exactly the most fas.h.i.+onable Cafe in SEVILLE, but a Cafe glorying in the ambitious name of JULIUS CaeSAR!]
TYPES OF SPANISH CHARACTER.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Fellow Pa.s.sengers in the Diligence to MALAGA--one, a corpulent and famous Bull-Fighter, and the other, an envious and admiring follower of the same enn.o.bling Profession.]
SPANISH STAGE-COACHES.
[Ill.u.s.tration: The light and graceful antediluvian Diligence that transported us up the Sierra Nevada Mountains, from MALAGA To LOJA.]
LOCOMOTION IN SPAIN.
[Ill.u.s.tration: This sketch is an attempt to display the general character and construction of one of the seven Mules that drew our Diligence over the hills from MALAGA To LOJA.]
THE SPANISH GUITAR.
[Ill.u.s.tration: A characteristic little sketch of a Guitar Player, in the window of a second-story dwelling, on the Alemeda de Verano, at GRENADA.]
BEGGARS IN SPAIN.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist, having in a generous moment, distributed a handful of copper coins to the poor of GRENADA, finds himself, thereafter, in all his strolls about the ALHAMBRA, at the Head of such a Procession as this!]
