THE LITTLE TOWN OF THE GRAPE VINES 



everybody is more or less akin. There is 

 not much villainy among them. What in- 

 centive to thieving or killing can there be 

 when there is little wealth and that to be 

 had for the borrowing ! If they love too 

 hotly, as we say " take their meat before 

 grace," so do their betters. Eh, what! shall 

 a man be a saint before he is dead ? And 

 besides, Holy Church takes it out of you 

 one way or another before all is done. 

 Come away, you who are obsessed with 

 your own importance in the scheme of 

 things, and have got nothing you did not 

 sweat for, come away by the brown valleys 

 and full-bosomed hills to the even-breathing 

 days, to the kindliness, earthiness, ease of 

 El Pueblo de Las Uvas. 



