Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Part 9

LOTTERIES IN SPAIN.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Nearly all the Lottery tickets in Spain are publicly sold in the streets by Beggars: and _this_ is the sort of Vagabond in MADRID to whom Our Artist confided $16 for a ticket that won a prize of $5.]

SIGHT-SEEING IN SPAIN.

[Ill.u.s.tration: There are so many hundred apartments to be seen in the famous PALACE OF THE ESCORIAL, that Our Artist is obliged to follow his Brigand of a Guide rather rapidly, in order to view them all in one day.]

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist sees from the car-window, at a Rail-Road Station near Toledo, what, at a first glance, appears to be a statue of Napoleon Bonaparte,--but: (_see next page_.)]

A RAIL-ROAD OFFICIAL.

[Ill.u.s.tration:---- the Statue suddenly becomes animated and revolves; and the side-view reveals a CIVIL GUARD, with carbine and knapsack beneath his big military cloak.]

ARCHITECTURE IN CORDOVA.

[Ill.u.s.tration: A picturesque little half Moorish and half Spanish dwelling house, in the Calle Jesus Maria; with a couple of Priests in earnest discussion.]

BALCONIES IN SEVILLE.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Sketch of a private residence in Calle San Pablo; from the upper Balcony of which, Our Artist had a rose thrown to him, while a cloaked a.s.sa.s.sin of a probable Lover, glowered savagely at him from the doorway.]

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA.

[Ill.u.s.tration: The Barber of Seville, according to Rossini's Opera, and according to the way in which he is popularly believed to disport himself.--(_See next page._)]

A BARBAROUS PROCEEDING.

[Ill.u.s.tration: The Barber of Seville, as he actually exists in that city, and precisely as he appeared while operating upon our Artist, one day, in the Calle de las Sierpes.]

A CAFe IN SEVILLE.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist discovers, one day, in the Calle Tunidores, not exactly the most fashionable Cafe in SEVILLE, but a Cafe glorying in the ambitious name of JULIUS CaeSAR!]

TYPES OF SPANISH CHARACTER.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Fellow Pa.s.sengers in the Diligence to MALAGA--one, a corpulent and famous Bull-Fighter, and the other, an envious and admiring follower of the same enn.o.bling Profession.]

SPANISH STAGE-COACHES.

[Ill.u.s.tration: The light and graceful antediluvian Diligence that transported us up the Sierra Nevada Mountains, from MALAGA To LOJA.]

LOCOMOTION IN SPAIN.

[Ill.u.s.tration: This sketch is an attempt to display the general character and construction of one of the seven Mules that drew our Diligence over the hills from MALAGA To LOJA.]

THE SPANISH GUITAR.

[Ill.u.s.tration: A characteristic little sketch of a Guitar Player, in the window of a second-story dwelling, on the Alemeda de Verano, at GRENADA.]

BEGGARS IN SPAIN.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist, having in a generous moment, distributed a handful of copper coins to the poor of GRENADA, finds himself, thereafter, in all his strolls about the ALHAMBRA, at the Head of such a Procession as this!]