. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. IN THE VALLEY OF SAHORRE [page 94) To face page 94 SAHORRE AND PY 95 and inviting householders to give him their foot-wear tomend. Strung in a circle about his shoulders are the shoeshe has collected, in every stage of dissolution. While hestands here and blows his trumpet, a woman washes clothesin the channel which runs along by the side of the street, anda pair of grey goslings stand marveUing at his music. Theman and his surroundings belong to a bygone age. And yet even Sahorre is moving towards moder
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. IN THE VALLEY OF SAHORRE [page 94) To face page 94 SAHORRE AND PY 95 and inviting householders to give him their foot-wear tomend. Strung in a circle about his shoulders are the shoeshe has collected, in every stage of dissolution. While hestands here and blows his trumpet, a woman washes clothesin the channel which runs along by the side of the street, anda pair of grey goslings stand marveUing at his music. Theman and his surroundings belong to a bygone age. And yet even Sahorre is moving towards modernity, underthe influence of its ambitious neighbour. No longer, it wouldseem, do the village folk carry their tortoises to the church tobe blessed, and thereafter ground into a sovereign powderfor their sheep; no longer are their cattle given olivebranches on Palm Sunday as a charm against the sorceresses;nor are their fields made fruitful with a pine bough blessedby the Cure on St. Peters Day. Even at Sahorre progressis afoot, and the owner of the white art villa sends thefruit of thi
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