ed at the

    garden, trict order of precedence,

    t names going first.

    A procession of noble boys, fantastically dressed as tOREADORS,

    came out to meet  of tierra-Nueva, a

    een years of age, uncovering

    he grace of a born hidalgo and grandee of Spain,

    led o a little gilt and ivory c was

    placed on a raised dais above the children grouped

    ttering to

    eacor stood laughing

    at trance.  Even the Camerera-Mayor as she was

    called - a tured

    look quite so bad-tempered as usual, and something like a chill

    smile flitted across chin

    bloodless lips.

    It certainly was a marvellous bull-fighe

    Infanta t, t t s

    to see at Seville, on t of the Duke of

    Parma to  on richly-

    caparisoned h gay

    streamers of brigtaco t on foot

    cloaks before ting lightly

    over the bull himself,

    like a live bull, though he was only made of wicker-

    retcimes insisted on running round

    the arena on his hind legs, which no live bull ever dreams of

    doing.   of it too, and t so

    excited t tood up upon their lace

    :  BRAVO tORO!  BRAVO tORO! just as

    sensibly as if t last, however,

    after a prolonged combat, during whe hobby-horses

    ed, the

    young Count of tierra-Nueva brougo his knees, and

    ained permission from ta to give the COUP DE

    GRACE, o th

    suc t off, and disclosed the

    laugtle Monsie