The Alhambra . ?^^{m^^mS^^dMP^?^ x,- \,^i. LEGEND OF THE TWO DISCREET STATUES There lived once in a waste apartment of the Alhambra amerry little fellow, named Lope Sanchez, who worked in thegardens, and was as brisk and as blithe as a grasshopper,singing all day long. He was the life and soul of the fortress ;when his work was over, he would sit on one of the stonebenches of the esplanade, strum his guitar, and sing long dittiesabout the Cid, and Bernardo del Carpio, and Fernando delPulgar, and other Spanish heroes, for the amusement of the oldsoldiers of the fortress; or would strike up a me
The Alhambra . ?^^{m^^mS^^dMP^?^ x,- \,^i. LEGEND OF THE TWO DISCREET STATUES There lived once in a waste apartment of the Alhambra amerry little fellow, named Lope Sanchez, who worked in thegardens, and was as brisk and as blithe as a grasshopper,singing all day long. He was the life and soul of the fortress ;when his work was over, he would sit on one of the stonebenches of the esplanade, strum his guitar, and sing long dittiesabout the Cid, and Bernardo del Carpio, and Fernando delPulgar, and other Spanish heroes, for the amusement of the oldsoldiers of the fortress; or would strike up a merrier tune, andset the girls dancing boleros \di fandangos. Like most little men, Lope Sanchez had a strapping buxomdame for a wife, who could almost have put him in herpocket ; but he lacked the usual poor mans lot—instead often children he had but one. This was a little black-eyed girlabout twelve years of age, named Sanchica, who was as merryas himself, and the delight of his heart. She played about him 384 THE ALHAMBRA as he work
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