. Spanish life in town and country . o more favoured provinces, sincetheir own is too poor to support them; they workhard, and return with their savings to their nativehills. Their fellow-countrymen consider themboorish in manners, uneducated, and of a lowclass; but they are good-natured and docile, hard-working, temperate, and honest. In your life,wrote the Duke of Wellington, you never sawanything so bad as the Galicians; and yet theyare the finest body of men and the best movers Ihave ever seen. There is a greater similaritybetween Galicia and Portugal than between theformer and any other p
. Spanish life in town and country . o more favoured provinces, sincetheir own is too poor to support them; they workhard, and return with their savings to their nativehills. Their fellow-countrymen consider themboorish in manners, uneducated, and of a lowclass; but they are good-natured and docile, hard-working, temperate, and honest. In your life,wrote the Duke of Wellington, you never sawanything so bad as the Galicians; and yet theyare the finest body of men and the best movers Ihave ever seen. There is a greater similaritybetween Galicia and Portugal than between theformer and any other province of Spain. Although they lie so close together, Asturiasdiffers widely from its sister province both in thecharacter of its people and its scenery. The Ro-mans took two hundred years to subdue it, andthe Moors never obtained a footing there. TheAsturians are a hardy, independent race, proudof giving the title to the heir-apparent of theSpanish throne. The people of this province,like their neighbours the Basques, are handsome. VALENCIANOS Types and Traits 27 and robust in appearance; the}^ are always to berecognised in Madrid by their fresh appearanceand excellent physique. For the most part theyare to be found engaged in the fish trade, whiletheir women, gorgeously dressed in their nativecostume by their employers, are the nurses of theupper classes. The ladies of Madrid do not think it goodstyle to bring up their own children, and theAsturian wet nurse is as much a part of the ordi-nary household as the coachman or are singularly handsome, well-grown wo-men, and become great favourites in the housesof their employers; but, like their menkind, theygo back to spend their savings among their be-loved hills. Many of these young women cometo Madrid on the chance of finding situations,leaving their own babies behind to be fed by hand,or Heaven knows how; they bring with them ayoung puppy to act as substitute until the nurse-child is found, and may be seen in t
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