Identifier: centuryillustratv37newy (find matches)
Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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H m \ Wf: A COUNTRYMAN. an added glow to the landscape, and the darkgreen of the pines and other evergreens con-trasts with the white flint of the roads and thelight sky. Each city has its own peculiar street-callsand sounds; but none can boast of a greatervariety than Madrid. Long before day thenotes of yellow-legged partridges, which arehere tamed for pets, are heard with their ham-mering noise, while the see-saw of the donkeysbraying, more or less remote, rasps the ear like 36 STREET LIFE IN MADRID.
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A STREET INCIDENT. a saw cutting across the grain of a dry board.Guitars are played by blind beggar-men, andit is seldom that the strumming of one cannotbe detected in the neighborhood. If street-callsteach nothing else, everywhere they all em-phasize the fact that vowels are the only soundswe distinctly hear; and the dry air of Madridseems to affect their particular intonation sim-ilarly to the climate of America. Often in anunconscious moment the ear is deceived bya call which in New York would be at oncerecognized as that of the boy with Extras.Spanish voices are seldom sweet, and when awoman with her tambourine sings under thewindow some snatch of the opera or the music of a bolero, the notes are generally of rather ahard contralto voice, and are by no means aspleasing as the sight of the woman herself ina strong-colored petticoat, gay apron, and asquare of red or blue cloth bound round herhead. If one finds the subjects of Velasquez, Mu-rillo, and Goya everywhere out-of-doors, wi

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