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Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d and reached the Romancity of Merida. Full of interest is Merida; here,like Toledo, have the Goths, Romans, Moors, andChristians, trampled upon each others heels andwrestled fiercely for mastery. From its grand oldRoman bridge which, in sixty-four arches, crossesthe Guadiana, we wandered to its triumphal arch,a single row of stones balanced perilously in the air,to its ruined aqueduct and theatre, but the call ofAndalucia was irresistible and urged us southward.As we were returning to the hotel for dinnerwe were treated by the Fates to an amusing sight.Since Talavera we had noticed that the Spanishpigs—great, heavy animals—seemed to possess anacute vein of reasoning. For instance, at Trujilloa herd was returning sedately and alone to theirhomes when it began to rain ; immediately the wholeherd commenced to run as hard as it knew how.However, it was only a slight shower, and a momentlater stopped; with one accord the herd slackenedspeed and resumed its stately walk. The careful200
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lOKSKSIlOK AIMii IS MKT AT KN-KI,! TTItNSanta .Maima i.a Bi.anca. Toi.kdo THE DESIRE OF OUR HEARTS student of porcine life in Spain will doubtless haveobserved that at a certain hour every morning eachpig leaves its home and seeks a fixed rendezvous,and becoming; a herd, marches e7i masse to thegrazing ground. Likewise every evening the herdreturns, dissolves, and separately each pig seeks itshome. The example which came under our noticeat Merida concerned two pigs that had left theherd and were walking sedately down a narrowstreet a few feet in front of us. About halfway,pig-on-the-left turned to pig-on-the-right, nodded,and without hurry, left its companion and mountedup some steps, entering the tidy front door of a smallcottage. Pig-on-the-right took no notice, but con-tinued his way down the street some fifteen housesfurther, then quietly, and without ostentation,entered the abode by the front door. There was nosnorting or grunting, and we were sorry not to beable to catch what pi

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