FOOTNOTES:[1]The dancing boys still officiate at Seville, also, in Holy-week, where they leap merrily before the high altar, and do not even take off their hats to the Host. The story runs that, years ago, a visiting bishop from Rome found fault with this as being unorthodox, and threatened to put a stop to it. He complained to the Pope, and a lenient order issued from the Vatican that the observance should be discontinued when the boys' clothes should be worn out. Up to the present day, curiously enough, the clothes have not been worn out.[2]These last are calledtocas, and are rapidly superseding the long mantilla.[3]This characterization, our own experience led us to conclude, was exceedingly unjust.[4]Some time before this he had, by too adventurous play, received a tossing which laid him up for eight months, and his death in the ring has since been reported.[5]In this connection it is curious to observe that the Toledan peasants, like the Chinese, confound the lettersrandl—as when they sayflolforflor, "flower."[6]Contained in the series called "The Man with Five Wives."[7]A nickname alluding to the sooty black of the clerical costume.[8]Literally, "sun-trap."[9]Irving's name heads the ponderous register in which visitors, embracing some of the most distinguished of the earth, have recorded themselves for fifty years past; and though it is not generally known, his signature may also be found pencilled on the inner wall of the little mosque near the Comares Tower, just under the interpolated Spanish choir gallery. Yet there seems to be a degree of mistiness in the Granadian mind respecting the author of "Tales of the Alhambra." I think the people sometimes confounded him with the Father of his Country. At all events, the Hotel Washington Irving is labelled, at one of its entrances, "Hotel Washington," as if that were the same thing.[10]"Fleming," a name commonly applied to Spanish gypsies; whence it has been inferred that the first of them came from the Netherlands.
[1]The dancing boys still officiate at Seville, also, in Holy-week, where they leap merrily before the high altar, and do not even take off their hats to the Host. The story runs that, years ago, a visiting bishop from Rome found fault with this as being unorthodox, and threatened to put a stop to it. He complained to the Pope, and a lenient order issued from the Vatican that the observance should be discontinued when the boys' clothes should be worn out. Up to the present day, curiously enough, the clothes have not been worn out.
[1]The dancing boys still officiate at Seville, also, in Holy-week, where they leap merrily before the high altar, and do not even take off their hats to the Host. The story runs that, years ago, a visiting bishop from Rome found fault with this as being unorthodox, and threatened to put a stop to it. He complained to the Pope, and a lenient order issued from the Vatican that the observance should be discontinued when the boys' clothes should be worn out. Up to the present day, curiously enough, the clothes have not been worn out.
[2]These last are calledtocas, and are rapidly superseding the long mantilla.
[2]These last are calledtocas, and are rapidly superseding the long mantilla.
[3]This characterization, our own experience led us to conclude, was exceedingly unjust.
[3]This characterization, our own experience led us to conclude, was exceedingly unjust.
[4]Some time before this he had, by too adventurous play, received a tossing which laid him up for eight months, and his death in the ring has since been reported.
[4]Some time before this he had, by too adventurous play, received a tossing which laid him up for eight months, and his death in the ring has since been reported.
[5]In this connection it is curious to observe that the Toledan peasants, like the Chinese, confound the lettersrandl—as when they sayflolforflor, "flower."
[5]In this connection it is curious to observe that the Toledan peasants, like the Chinese, confound the lettersrandl—as when they sayflolforflor, "flower."
[6]Contained in the series called "The Man with Five Wives."
[6]Contained in the series called "The Man with Five Wives."
[7]A nickname alluding to the sooty black of the clerical costume.
[7]A nickname alluding to the sooty black of the clerical costume.
[8]Literally, "sun-trap."
[8]Literally, "sun-trap."
[9]Irving's name heads the ponderous register in which visitors, embracing some of the most distinguished of the earth, have recorded themselves for fifty years past; and though it is not generally known, his signature may also be found pencilled on the inner wall of the little mosque near the Comares Tower, just under the interpolated Spanish choir gallery. Yet there seems to be a degree of mistiness in the Granadian mind respecting the author of "Tales of the Alhambra." I think the people sometimes confounded him with the Father of his Country. At all events, the Hotel Washington Irving is labelled, at one of its entrances, "Hotel Washington," as if that were the same thing.
[9]Irving's name heads the ponderous register in which visitors, embracing some of the most distinguished of the earth, have recorded themselves for fifty years past; and though it is not generally known, his signature may also be found pencilled on the inner wall of the little mosque near the Comares Tower, just under the interpolated Spanish choir gallery. Yet there seems to be a degree of mistiness in the Granadian mind respecting the author of "Tales of the Alhambra." I think the people sometimes confounded him with the Father of his Country. At all events, the Hotel Washington Irving is labelled, at one of its entrances, "Hotel Washington," as if that were the same thing.
[10]"Fleming," a name commonly applied to Spanish gypsies; whence it has been inferred that the first of them came from the Netherlands.
[10]"Fleming," a name commonly applied to Spanish gypsies; whence it has been inferred that the first of them came from the Netherlands.
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