Category: Short Stories

Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes (Spanish and Portuguese Folklore)

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Chapters

4. Part 4

As the musicians entered the village, heralding the grand entertainment to be held next day, the people cheered them heartily, and followed them to the church, situated on the t...

5. Part 5

The Moorish blood permeated the veins of the majority of the Spaniards; but a religious despotism completely subdued the minds of all, and Spain, under the yoke of the Jesuits,...

2. Part 2

The husband and wife were very much afraid that the old woman was a witch; but as the child went on growing and seemed well they gradually forgot their visitor.

3. Part 3

From so wise a king and good a queen the people derived great benefit; disputes never went beyond the ears of the chief minister, and, in the words of the immortal barber and po...

6. Part 6

Sigli, seeing it from his dressing-room window, and taking it for a beggar, was so enraged that he ran out without his shoes and stockings, and, without waiting to look at the m...

8. Part 8

Good St. James had been confined within his box for about three months when the day for his annual procession came round, and great preparations had been made for the occasion....

1. Part 1

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7. Part 7

As he was going along, thinking of his present trouble, he observed a wide gate made of gold, opening into a beautiful garden, into which he hesitated not to enter; for he recol...

9. Part 9

THE GRIEVANCES BETWEEN AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS, being the Report of the Conferences of the Incorporated Society of Authors held in Willis’s Rooms, in March, 1887 with Additional...