Rambles in sunny Spain . we anticipate. Seville was full and running over; for all theworld (immediately contiguous to the district) was there, and all theworld seemed to have taken with it wife and children. Hotels werefilled, boarding-houses likewise, and the hackmen were more impudentthan usual; for a hackman, be it known, rises and falls in barometricscale with the influx and departure of strangers. Double rates weresanctioned by the authorities, and double rates were charged. Fortu-nately there were but two vacant the Spanish hotel, El Cisneand Nueva York (the Swan and Ne
Rambles in sunny Spain . we anticipate. Seville was full and running over; for all theworld (immediately contiguous to the district) was there, and all theworld seemed to have taken with it wife and children. Hotels werefilled, boarding-houses likewise, and the hackmen were more impudentthan usual; for a hackman, be it known, rises and falls in barometricscale with the influx and departure of strangers. Double rates weresanctioned by the authorities, and double rates were charged. Fortu-nately there were but two vacant the Spanish hotel, El Cisneand Nueva York (the Swan and New York). Just why a hotel of is8 RAMBLES IN SUNNY SPAIN. pretensions should saddle itself with such a name as this our readersknow as well as we. The great fair was the theme of every scribbler for weeks. It hadattracted, as we have said, the attention of all natives and outside the city walls, not far from the banks of the Guadalquivir,hundreds of booths and shanties had been erected for the aCCOmmoda- fe. ON THE WAV TO THE FAIR. tion of the venders of many articles, and for the temporary sojournof the families of the Sevillanos, especially in the afternoon and even-ing. And the city fathers had outdone all previous efforts — for thisfair is an annual occurrence — in providing entertainment for thecrowds. They had barely recovered from the Solcmnidades of HolyWeek, which took place between March 25 and April 2 ; after allow- SIGHT-SEEING IN SEVILLE. I 59 ing themselves a week to breathe in, they sprang to their second taskwith renewed ardor. Easter Sunday was particularly solemn andbeautiful, to judge from the official announcement at the time. Inthe morning the city officials waited upon the archbishop at his palace,to conduct him to the cathedral for high mass, and in the afternoonthey all skipped off to a grand and solemn bull-fight! The offi-cial announcement reads somewhat like the advertisements of the sacred concerts that take place in the theatres of
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