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of a southern sky the 

 merry tinkle of falling 

 water was above every- 

 thing a delight, the 

 source of all that is 

 pleasant to hear and 

 feel and see. " It 

 ran," says Washing- 

 ton Irving, " in chan- 

 nels along his marble 

 pavements, it filled 

 bath and fishpond 

 with a sound like the 

 murmuring of a dis- 



FOUNTAIN IN THE PARTERRE OF MARIA DE PADILLA. 



TILED SEATS, THE ALCAZAR, 

 SEVILLE. 



tant multitude, it 

 flowed bubbling along 

 in underground pipes 

 to feed basin and 

 fountain : to-day it 

 still offers its glassy 

 face to image marble 

 wall and evergreen 

 hedge in the Court of 

 Myrtles ; it plashes in 

 alabaster basins in the 

 Court of Lions, it 

 leaps from the ground 

 in elfin jets and frolics 

 in a hundred glisten- 

 ing bows in the gar- 

 den of the Gener- 

 alife." 



