The Placard 



PUES JUZGUEN VMDES. SI SON BUENAS 

 LAS JAQUlTAS.i 



Aplicarse a Don Enriquez, 

 Parador de Las Postas, 



This notice is posted up on the stable-door, which opens 

 on the main street of the town. Quantities of people have 

 been looking at it, and some have been in to inspect the 

 ponies. 



We have given out that we are in no hurry to sell, and 

 finding Yrun a pleasant place, we shall take our leisure 

 and wait till we have an offer that suits us. It is twelve 

 o'clock. 



By the bye, in the anxiety about our ponies, I have never 

 been to the post-ofSce. I will thither at once, for who 

 knows but I may find a letter. 



It is night. I have just come back from the sea-shore, 

 where I waited to see the sun go down upon the waters — 

 listening to the music of the waves, which, as they now are 

 all that lie between me and my native land, seem as they 

 come tumbling on the beach to bring soft murmuring mes- 

 sages from my home ; and the whispering sea-breeze too, 

 that lightly brushes across the feathery fringes of foam. 

 Mere fanciful nonsense is this ; for the real fountain of 

 sweet thoughts and reveries was the letter I carried there 

 to read over and over again, till the last flush faded in the 



' Translation : — " Here are to be sold two Andalusian ponies, 

 very pretty and stout. They were born in Seville, of ancient 

 Arab race. They have already arrived as far as Yrun by Ronda, 

 Gibraltar, Granada, Madrid, Segovia, Valladolid, doing ten 

 leagues per day. Let your worships therefore judge whether the 

 ponies are good. 



" Apply to Don Enriquez, Diligence Inn." 



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