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outside city walls, ostensibly to occupy themselves with 

 iron and copper tinkery, kettle-making, and the like. Some 

 of the women of these Bohemians are striking enough in 

 their gypsy-beauty ; the same faces are seen in successive 

 years, so their journeyings are to some extent methodical. 

 One meets these nomad bands all over rural Spain, 

 laboriously " trekking " axle-deep, across dusky-brown 

 plain or lonely waste of brushwood and palmetto — pic- 

 turesque objects — indeed the only element of life and colour 

 amidst these desolate scenes. 



GrPSY DANCE. 



