. Wild Spain (Espan?a agreste): records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun; natural history and exploration. Natural history; Hunting; Game and game-birds. A NIGHT AT A POSADA. 21 with easy spontaneous grace and precision, both by the girl and her partner. Though two or more pairs may be dancing at once, each is quite independent of the others, and only dance to themselves : nor do the partners ever touch each other.* The steps are difficult and somewhat intricate, and there is plenty of scope for individual skill, though grace of move- ment and supple pliancy of limb and body are almost univer
. Wild Spain (Espan?a agreste): records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun; natural history and exploration. Natural history; Hunting; Game and game-birds. A NIGHT AT A POSADA. 21 with easy spontaneous grace and precision, both by the girl and her partner. Though two or more pairs may be dancing at once, each is quite independent of the others, and only dance to themselves : nor do the partners ever touch each other.* The steps are difficult and somewhat intricate, and there is plenty of scope for individual skill, though grace of move- ment and supple pliancy of limb and body are almost universal and are strong points in dancing both the fan- dango and minuet. Presently the climax of the dance. THE VILLAGE POSADA. approaches. The notes of the guitar grow faster and faster : the man—a stalwart shepherd lad—leaps and bounds around his pirouetting partner, and the steps, though still well ordered and in time, grow so fast one can hardly follow their movements. Now others rise and take the places of the first dancers, * We have seen an exception to this in the mountain villages of the Castiles, where, on fiesta nights, a sort of rude valse is danced in the open Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapman, Abel, 1851-1929; Buck, Walter John. London, Gurney and Jackson
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