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Segars, Tobacco, &c,
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IL be found at the store of the eubec caber. Ue keeps
nut). a fir-t rule oracle chill it.
ft. P. EUERLEI VS Grocery Store.
Locum et, Columbia, fin.
Oct 43,1; 1
CRANBERKUES,
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SARDINES,
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CRANBEARIES.
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Oct 11. Viet 1 - .I:ItECLEIN. •
The Cream-Cheese
Two travellers occupied a first-class car
on the railroad from Corbeil to Paris—a
man about thirty years old, and a lady who
might have passed for ten years younger,
though the baptismal register proved her to
be twenty-five. It was a bright morning in
June, not a cloud veiled the deep blue of
the heavens, and the sun, shining obliquely
through the window, inundated with its
rays the side where the lady was seated.
"The sun incommodes you, madame,"
said the gentleman; "I should be happy to
exchange places, if it would be agreeable to
5 3 7 50
MU
yon."
The lady showed by a smile and bow that
she was pleased with his courtesy.
"I am exceedingly obliged to you, sir, but
[cannot ride backward. It is not for my
self either, that I fear the sun, but fur this
basket."
She pointed to a charming little piece of
wickerwork on the scat beside her, from be
neath the cover of which the edges of some
vine leaves peeped out.
"The sun does net injure fruit, madame;
and this appears, besides, sufficiently pro
tected."
•"It is not fruit, sir; there is only a simple
cream-cheese in the basket; but I should be
distressed if it did not arrive in Paris per
fectly fresh."
Then, as if to be certain that she had not
compromised herself in talking with a stran
ger, "To whom have I the honor to siseak?'!
she added, taking care, however, to conceal,
by a smile, the distrust which suggested the
question.
'"To a future inhabitant of Corbeil, mad
ame. I hare recently purchased a house
there, and hare just completed its furnish
ing. My name is Delannoy."
The lady inclined her head with a satisfied
air. There was no great information, it is
true, in the name of Delannoy; but it was
evident to her that a man who had just
bought a house must be respectable.
Delannoy thought that he had a right to
ask a question in his turn.
"Does madame reside at Corbeil?"
"Yes, sir."
"I shall be happy if my property is in the
neighborhood of madame. It is situated in
the nee de Quatorze."
"Indeed, sir! We should have been neigh
bors six months ago. I occupied at that
time the first story of the Nogenlet mansion.
Nogeniet is the name of my husband's
Gamily."
"Madame is married then?"
"I nal a widow, sir."
De!annoy looked more closely at Madame
Nogenlet. llc observed that she had glossy,
black hair, expressive eyes, ruby lips, which
disclosed two magnificent rows of pearls, a
small white hand; in short, that she was a
very pretty widow.
"The sun is shining full upon your bas
ket," lie remarked, after completing his ob
servation; "allow me to place it upon my
scat."
It would have been difficult to refuse, for
the hand of Delannoy, more prompt than his
word, had effected the change before he had
completed the offer.
"So much trousle about a cheese! lam
afraid that I seem very ridiculous to you;
but I have an old aunt in Paris, Rue de
Varennes, whom 1 love like a mother, and
e•ho is very fond of these cheeses, which are
made in great perfection in the neighbor
hood of Corbeil. , I never visit her without
carrying one With me and 1 am naturally
anxious that she should receive it perfectly
fresh."
"It only justifieF., madame, the opinion
one would form on looking at you."
An examination of a few seconds bad
shown Madame 'sloganlet that her compli
meutary neighbor had a pleading face at d a
tine form.
••Is it.is a permanent dwelling, 6i only as
a summer residence, that monsieur has pur
chased a house in our
do not know as yet, madame. It will
depend upon the effect which a change of
air may produce upon the health of my
wife."
"All! monsieur is married!"
The conversation became more languid.
Perhaps Madame Nogeolet found some
cause fur regret in the information she had
just received; perhaps Delannoy. discovered
that there was danger in becoming too in
timately acquainted with a widow as attrac
tive as Madame Nogenlet. But these details
arc foreign to our story.
The train stops. It is the station of
Choisis le Roy. Madame Nogenlet utters
a cry of surprise. Among the persons who
await the arrival of the train, she recognises
a boarding school friend whom she has lost
sight of fur several years. She alights hur
riedly. She can go on by the nest train.—
A delay of an hour and a half will not do
any harm to her old aunt.
Delancey remains alone in his compart
ment of the car. While he is congratula
ting himself upon having come out with
;Amor from this perilous rencontre, his eye
falls upon the basket of the pretty widow.
In her eagerness to hasten after her friend,
Madame Nugenlot has left upon the seat the
precious cheese, the object of so in itch solici
tude. Happily, she has given her name to
Delannoy. She has even indicated the
dwelling of her aunt, for whom the cheese
is destined. Dclannoy can do no less than
carry the basket to its address. It is an
imperious duty of politeness, which it would
be impossible fur a wolf-bred man to ne
glect.
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, -NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2,,1861.
That he may not, in his turn, forget the
basket, Delannny places it on his knees, and,
while thinking of matters and things in
general, half mechanically, he raises the lid.
Perhaps he had a little desire to see the
physiognomy of this precious cheese. We
must not imagine that curiosity is the ex
clusive privilege of the daughters cf Eve.
The parting vine leaves allowed him to
rerceive a golden surface of a very tempt
ing character; but his attention was soon
diverted from this to the corner of a sheet
of paper, in which the cheese appeared to
have been at first wrapped. On this corner
there is a signature, and it is that of Valen
tine, his wife.
"This is a singular accident," he said to
himself, "and, what is more singular,ls,
that VLilentine has never spoken to me of
this Madame Nogenlct, with whom, how
ever, she is corresponding."
A simple signature cannot satisfy him.—
"Let us see, then, in what terms my wife
writes to this lady."
lie half turns the cheese, and succeeds in
d3taching the paper. It is only a fragment,
containing, on one side, two lines of the
third page of the letter, proceeding the sig
nature, and on the other a portion of the
address. Two lines only! Yet these two
lines suffice to draw from him a cry of sur
prise and indignation:
"I shall never forget how kind you have
been to me under all circumstances.
"My love is thine forever.
On the back is written, "To MJnsieur
—." The rest of the address is wanting.
"No matter," he cried, trembling with
rage, "the guilty wife must be punished
first. I shall find means afterwards to
reach the accomplice."
The train stops at its destination. Delan
n6y, holding in one hand the basket of Ma
dame Nogenlet, and pressing convulsively
in the other the tell-tale paper, jumps into
a coach and soon arrives at his dwelling,
where his wife is awaiting him. Ile had
sent on before ;Harriette, the servant, to in
form tier that the house was ready, and that
he should come himself for her in the course
of the day.
The young wife remarks, with terror, the
strange expression of her hustaturs counte-
mince.
"What has happened, my love?" she es-
claims
"You will soon know, madame; but, in
the first place, answer my questions. Du
you know any one at Corbel?"
The eyes of Delannoy darted such light
ning glances that Valentine remained a mo
ment stupefied. ••
"Remember," lie resumed, "that I must
know the whole truth, and it will be useless
to attempt to deceive me. When I decided
to remove to Corbel, in preference to nny
other place, it was.owing to your entreaties.
There must have been a reason for those
entreaties, and that reason I will know.—
Well, madame! how long must I wait for
your answer?"
"If I have hesitated for a moment," re
plied Yalentice, with the must perfect calm
ness, "it is because I was trying to under
stand the reason of your questions, and
your evident anger. I know no one at
Corbeil. I begged you to remove there
because many persons recommended the
climate as very healthful."
"You deny, then?"
"D any what? Your questions are per
fectly enigmatical."
"I will enlighten you, madame. Here is
apiece of paper which comes from Corbeil."
Dclannoy unfolded the paper and placed
it before Valentine.
"D.) you rec..gnize this handwriting?"
"It is mine."
"Yes, your writing., madame. I did not
need your confession to be sure of it. And
you pretend to know no one in a place
where some one lives to whom you write--
•My lure is thine forever!'"
"Nu one, I repeat it; and I cannot under
stand—"
"Enough, madame. I will hear no more.
There is no possibility of justification.. As
I have a horror of scandal, I shall endeavor
to control my indignation. I wish no vio
lent scenes or disgraceful lawsuits. I will
show great indulgence, but it is on two con
ditions: within twenty•four hours you will
leave my house and return to your family,
and you will tell me instantly the name of
the scoundrel to whom this letter is ad
dressed."
"Sir," rep \ fied Valentine, with an air of
dignity, "you are not in a condition to listen
to Inc anti I confess, besides, that I am not
able at present to justify myself. I cannot
deny my signature, and these lines were
also written by my hand. There is a mys
tery about it which I cannot understand, and
to which I am obliged, at present, to yield.
Your first command shall be obeyed. To
morrow I will seek an asylum with my
mother; but my obedience can go no fur
ther. Whatever right the law may give you
over me, it does not authorize you to require
an impossibility."
Delannoy was confounded. Ile bad not
suspected such audacity in a woman who
had always hitherto appeared perfectly
gentle, and even timid. Ile shut himself
up in his chamber, and gave full vent to his
rage. Dcath!—death alone could revenge
him upon the wretch who had ruined his
happiness. how could be discover that
name which Valentine' refused to disclose?
Ile would give half his forttsne to know it.
ShOuld he apply to Madame Nogenlct?
Perhaps she was ignorant of the existence
of the letter; but, then, how did it come
into her possession? Ilis excited imagina
tion soon invented a fable to account for
this. Madame Nogenlet was pretty, and a
widow, with, no doubt, many admirers—her
choice had fallen on some Lovelace—a lost
letter had revealed to her his infidelity—
there had been a quarrel, then a reconcilia
tion, on condition of the sacrifice of the cor
respondence. Other letters were, undoubt
edly, in the hands of the widow.
So convinced does he at length become of
the reality of his fancies, that he determines
to go directly to Madame Nogenlet. The
basket will furnish an excuse for a visit.—
lie already knows the street and her resi
dence.
Ills determination is immediately carried
into effect. After a few inquiries the house
is found, and he is soon ushered into a
drawing•room, whore Madame Nogenlet re
ceives him with the warmest expressions of
gratitude.
"How very kind of you, sir, to take so
much trouble to repair the effects of my in
excusable carelessness! My poor aunt will
be delighted. Yon cannot imagine the
pleasure which the return of this basket
gives me."
"I am very happy if it is so, as I trust it
will lead you to some indulgence in my
favor."
He then related simply that he bad not
been able to resist the temptation of n peep
at the cheese, and the result had been the
discovery of a piece of paper, on which were
written the line—"l shall never forget," etc.,
etc.
VAT.ENTINE."
"Indeed!" said Nl.tdame Nogenlet, laugh
ing; "was this on the envelope of my cheese?
A love letter! It is charming! What a
a pity that there is only the end of it."
"The commencement cannot be far off."
"Do you think so?"
"Madame, the imprudent person who
wrote those lines—who never should have
written them—•belongs to a respectable
family with whose friendship I am honored.
You will easily understand that the entire
letter must be of a still more compromising
character, especially if the writer is—a mar
ried woman."
"I can imagine that such a passage would
not sound pleasantly in the cars of a hus
band."
"Ilow the letter came into your hands—
with others, perhaps—l have certainly no
right to ask, but permit me to represent to
you the grief which this secret, if divulged,
would excite in a respectable family. Let
me supplicate you. madame, to make the
generous sacrifice of this letter—or rather
of those letters—it is to be presumed that
there are others."
Aladame Nu,senlet looked at him with
some surprise.
"It would give me the greatest pleasure,"
she said, "to oblige you, if it were in my
power; the kindness I havo received from
you is assuredly worth a few scraps of paper;
but, unfortunately, the one you have shown
me is the only one that has been in my pos
session; and that was without my know.
ledge."
"Then I was mistaken iu my conjecture',"
cried Delannuy, in a tone of vexation.
"And dues this trouble you much?'
"Assuredly. What can I do, now? To
whom cant apply?"
"To the grocer who sold me the cheese,
at Corbeil, Rue St. Spire."
"True. I did not think of that. I will
go there immediately. A thousand pardons,
tnadame, for hosing troubled you."
The impatience of Delannoy had yet to
suffer ono trial. When ho arrived nt the
railroad station the train for CJrbeil had
just left, and he was obliged to wait two
hours. While he was waiting, a train ar
rived from Corheil, and one of the first per.
suns who steppe 1 out of the cars was Mari•
ette.
"Where have you been?" he asked.
"To Corbeil."
"Who sent you?"
"Madame."
What fa•?"
"To get some articles that had been sent
on there which she wanted."
The answer was so simple and probable
that De'annoy did not inquire further.
"You can go," he said.
Marietta did not wait to be told twice,
and the haste which she showed in depart
ing, awoke some suspicions in the mind of
tier master, who remembered now, or fan
cied; that she looked embarrassed, and that
her face flushed when she saw him. But
the train was about to start, and ho had no
time toßillow her. Bestdpped into a car, and
in an hour was at the grocer's, in the Itue
St. Spire.
"Madame," he said to the woman who stood
behind the counter, "you hare a stock of old
papers in which you wrap up your goads.
How much arc they worth?"
The woman looked across - her spectacles
with surprise at the individual who asked
this unusual question.
"You do not understand me?"
"Perfectly, sir; but it would ho difficult
to tell the value without weighing them."
"If I should offer you twenty francs would
you be satisfied?"
"Sir?"
"Hold, here are forty; if you will give
them all to me immediately, without 'ex
cepting the smallest scrap."
The best days at the grocery never
brought bar in the half of this; and Do an .
noy soon found his arms full of papers,
which, she assured him, were all that she
possessed. lie hastens to his house, turns
over carefully bills, college themes, business
letters, etc., by the dozens; not one escapes
him, and ho arrives at the last, fatigued and
exhausted, but without any result. lle re
turns to the grocery.
"Madame, you have deceived me:"
"I, sir!"
"You have other papers besides these."
"Look for yourself, sir—under the coun
ter—in the drawers—l defy you to find one."
"It is very strange that among all the
papers you have given me there is not one
of those which I wish to fiml."
"Perhaps the person took them that was
here before you."
"What person?"
"Some one came an hour or two ago, and
paid me to let her look over them, and take
what she wanted."
This revelation struck Delannoy with
surprise. "Can you tell me who this person
was?" he asked.
"Tho servant of a family who have re
cently come to Corbeil."
"Marlette?"
"I believe that was her name."
Mariette! It was very strange. How
could Marlette have anticipated him in his
search, when he had not uttered a word
which could reveal his intention? "I will
interrogate her," he exclaimed. "This mys
tery must be cleared up."
Iraving passed over, for the third time,
the road between Corbeil and Paris, he ar
rived at his house. Mariette opens the door:
"You have been to the grocer's in Corbeil
to get some papers. D.; not attempt to deny
it—you see I know nII."
"Sir—."
"Did madame order you to do this?"
Mariette looks down—twists her apron in
her fingers—and utters some unintelligible
u•otids. Delannoy had hitherto restrained
himself; but the increasing embarrassment
of Marlette enraged him beyond all bounds.
"IVill you !Teak?" he shouted, in a voice
loud enough to shake every window in the
house.
Mariette sobs.
"Old sir—pardon—pardon—do not think
rue' dishoneSt—do not turn me away—l
thought it was my perquisites—l did not
know it was wrong."
Delannoy strides across the room with his
fists clenched.
"The girl has loot her wite," be mutters
"I cam get nothing out of her."
A door opens. Madan.° Delannoy ap
ME
"No sir, Marietta has not lost her wits.
She is right in blaming herself for a fault
which might have had very serious conse
quences; but you will pardon her, I hope . , at
my request."
Delannoy felt the blood boil in his veins.
Pardon her! and at the request of a wife
who hal so much need of pArdon herself!
"Go!" said Valentine to Mariette.
Before leaving she wished to make one
last effort.
"I assure. you, sir, that I never did such
a. thing before."
De!annoy uttered an exclamation of impa
tience, that male poor Marlette take
flight instantly.
"1 await, madame, the termirmtion of this
comedy."
"Here it is, sir."
Valentine presented a p , ece of paper to
her husband. This paper is a fragment of
a letter, and fits, with the most perfect ex
actness, the fragment which Delannoy has
in Lis possession. On the last was, as we
have said, the commencement of an address;
the end was on the other. Delannoy utters
a cry of joy. and fulls on his knees before
his wife. The whole address was this:—
To Monsieur Delannoy, poste reciante, Ton•
louse."
Dell - many had taken a journey to the
South of France some years before.
"I am happy—a thousand times happy!
but I do not yet understand."
"The explanation is very simple. Mari
ette, in arranging the furniture of the house
at Corbeil, found a package of old papers,
which she thought she might sell for her
own benefit. Among them were the letters
which I wrote you at Toulouse. The poor
girl, finding by the scene in the morning
what trouble she had caused, came in tears
to confess her fault. I sent her to Corbeil.
You know the rest."
After the explanation came reproaches.
Valentine, ill-nsed in the morning, had so
good a chance to revenge herself in the eve
ning! and vengeance is so sweet to a woman
—even the most indulger.t:
And then—when she had scolded him
well, she did, what the most severe will do
--13:1111 pard.med.
Odds and Ends of German Life
If one could only go barefoot, and live
without eating, Ilohenbraten would be a
most charming residence. But so long as
two feet and ono ''chest”—as a scrupulous
friend of mine always called her stomach—
form normal portions of our mortal frame,
one lives and moves in this pleasant city
under great and particlarly German difficul
ties. Oa, as I suppose, the broad principle
of compensation, while meat is tough leather
is tender—soft, lachrymose, and susceptible
of every outward impression, as any senti
mental heroine of an old-fashioned novel.—
"Eating one's boots" would really be by no
means an impossible, nor even, I fancy, a
very unpleasant achievement, in this good
town of Llobenbraten. I am certain at
$1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE
lea t that I have often swallowed things
much tougher and blacker under the delu
sire title of "English bifsteks." One day
when our delighted artist had suspassed
herself in cooking, and had quite the air
of having achieved a gastronomic success,
could not help remarking to my friends:
"Well, at all events, we cannot complain
of having wanted variety to-day, for we had
at first an innocent sort of soup tasting of
nothing in particular, then beefsteaks like
the soles of our shoes; and finally a dish of
pancakes, in color anal consistency exactly
resembling the upper leathers."
••I wish," replied one of the party, laugh
ing as heartily as his aching jaws would
permit, "that my last shoes were of a tex
ture half as tenacious as that tecnctutsddes
Fleisch." What a comfort it is sometimes to
say a naughty word in a foreign tongue.
We had,likewise a fowl that day fur din
ner—a most remarkable bird of which it
might truly be asserted, •'that even in its
ashes glowed its wonted fires;" for although
thoroughly burned up, it apparently retained
a pensive memory of its congenial element,
and came to table with legs and wings ex
tended, flying all abroad, and evidently
meditating a skyward expediti an.
Besides shoes, one is apt to retain British
prejudice in favor of wearing stockings.--
Hine dice lacleryntte. I was at first greatly
puzzled to think why every German female
--of all ranks, from five years old to eighty
--seemed to make the unintermitting use of
her knitt ug needles the be-all and cud-all
of her out door existence. I say out door
advisedly, for within, cooking alternates
with knitting. Now, I du not exaggerate
in the slightest degree when I say that in
Southern Germany you never see a female
native unprovided with her Strid: zeug. At
the beer gardens, at the cafes, at places of
public aniusement, the ?rams and frazdei as
knit, and knit, as if their whole soul, like
an Irishwoman's money, lay wittiin a stock
ing heel. For it is none of your pretty,
young, lady-like, fancy fairy looking fanta
sies which those five resolute needles perpe
trate; no, the works of their points aro solid,
uncompromising coverings for the feet of
her husband, brother, son, and daughter.
Hood's song of the Shirt describes nothing
like the - unwearied industry of German fin
gers, for I verily believe Teutonic maids and
matrons knit in their sleep. The rise and
progress of a pair of German stockings
strongly reminds me of a certain Irish glass ,
of punch. A jolly old squire whom I re
member, in my childhood, was wont to boast
that lie never on any occasion drank more
than ono tumbler of punch at a sitting.—
This was perfectly true, but it was equally
certain that lie never was known to go to
bed sober. The explanation was this. The
old gentleman, after dinner, used to manu
facture a potent glass; after sipping a few
spoonfulls, he would complain that it wanted
sugar, A lump or two were added, then it
was too sweet, so a little more whisky must
be poured in. Too strong now; water was
I needed; and a somewhat too liberal infusion
of the pure liquid required s second dose of
spirit; then a little more sugar, and so on,
until, under the delusive name of one tum
bler, a round dozen or so had been imbibed.
Now, in a somewhat analogous manner is a
German stocking preserved by its thrifty
owner to a somewhat old age. When the
foot, after careful mending, is irretrievably
goete, a new ono is knit on the upper part:
and when this, in its turn, becomes super
annuated, a new leg is joined to the foot.—
This operation being several times repeated,
the article in question enjoys an immortelity
of etockinghood, although, like the frame
which it helps to cover, its subsistence is!
I perpetually being renewed.
The German ladies hold in high contempt
all females unskilled in this peculiar branch
of industry. "English women are so lazy," I
they ray: "they spend their time in reading
and music, and fancy work, instead of good
useful cooking and knitting." And when
we pour female natives of Britain come to
purchase stockings, relit bad and very dear
we and them. Even in public mcetings, re
ligious or otherwise, whenever ladies attend,
they seldom go unprovided with the indefat. I
igable needles, which seem to fill up every
unoccupied moment of waiting, and work
away with as indomitable a degree of per
severance as if they were bona fide the great
reformer's "five thorny points." Ono ad
vantage, or disadvantage, as the case may
be, of this mechanical industry is, the free
license which it permits to the exercise of
the tongue—a privilege by no means ne- I
glected by either Frau or Praulein. I re-
member once to have heard a certain Irish
village described by an eccentric tourist as
the "say-bathingest and tay-drinkingost
place lie had ever been in in his life." With
equal truth might llehenbraten be described i
as the "knittingest and smokingest place in
the world." As to smoke, cigars may
deed hero be truly called "weeds," seeing
that very tolerable ones may be purchased 1
at the cheap and easy rate of three a penny.
I have sometimes wondered whether there I
is a building in llohenbraten, except the]
churches, whore they don't sell cigars. 1
know that,.soon sales my arrival, I went I
into a millinery establishment, with a view
to the purchase of sundry elle of ribbon; and 1
being then new to the ways of the place, I
was rather surprised at the potent smell of 1
tobacco which pervaded the premise!, until
I perceived that boxes of cigars alternated
on the counter with cartons of feminine
head-gear, and thtit rolls of tobacco and of
mover ribbon reposed amicably side by -ide.
[WHOLE NUMBER 1,539.
Without exaggeration, the pretty r,, , :e-huo I
Rand which 1 purehaged imparted ,1%.r !•et
eral days to its wearer's dre4s an aroma f , f
that most hateful plant to which King Jamie
published a counterblast. Here, howe%er
it is no use to dislike tobacco; the sooner
one makes up one's olfactory nerves to en
dure the infliction of the German's remorse
less smoking, the better fur one's peace of
nose. Smoking in the presence of ladies
permitted everywhere, indeed. pulling a
cigar full in a gentlewoman's faceis regard
ed by a German Herr as rather a mark of
delicate attention than otherwise; so, as Ow
French proverb says: "Qoand on n'a pas ce
que l'on aime, it taut aimer ce quo l'on
And having already reached that placid
state of passive toleration, I hope at the end
of some time to arrive at a full appreciation
of the cloudy charms of a meershautu.
Bread Making in Spain
Finding myself about two leigurq from
Seville, in the pieturesrine village of Alea
de les Panaderos—ot Fakers—as almost all
the bread consumed in Seville is made there,
I determined to know - how it was made.—
No traveler who ever travels the south of
Spans ever fails to remark, "how dtlie.i.ml
the bread It is as white as snow,
as cake, and yet very light. The flavur i•
moot deindous—for the wheat iq good and
pure, and the bread well kneaded.
A practical demonstration is better than
hearsay or theory. I would not content
myself with the description of the process of
making, but went to the house of a baker,
whose pretty wife and dang,hter I had often
stopped to look at, an they were sorting
the wheat, on very low stools in the porch
of their house. It was a pretty picture;
their dark sparkling eyes, rosy cheeks and
snowy teeth; their hair always beautifully
dressed, and always ornamented with na
tural flowers from their little garden in the
background; their bright-colored necker
chiefs rolled in at the top, showing their
necks; their cotton gowns with short sleeves;
their hands scrupulously clean, and so small
that many an aristocratic dame, might have
envied them; surrounded by panniers fill el
with wheat, which they took out n handful
at a time, sorting it most expeditiously, and
throwing every defective grainjnto another
basket. When this is done .the wheat is
Le,round between two large circular stones, in
the way it was ground in Egypt two thous
and years ago—the rotary motion being
given by a blindfold mule, which paces
round and round with untiring patience, a
bell being attached to his neck, which, as
long as he is moving, tinkles on; and when
he stops he is urged to his duty by the.
shouts of "erra . mula" from someone within
hearing. When ground, the wheat is sifted
through three sieves, the last being so fine
that only the pure flour can pass through it
—it is of a pale apricot color.
The bread is made of an evening, and
after sunset I returned to the baker's and
watched his pretty wife first weigh the
flour and then mix it with only just sufficient
water, irixed with a little salt, to nuke into
dough. A very small quantity of' leaven is
' added. The Scripture says "a little leaven
leaventh the whole lump;" but in England,
to avoid the trouble of kneading, they put
as much leaven or yeast, in one batch of
household bread as in Spain would last them
a week fur the six or eight donkey-loads of
"bread they send every night from their oven.
When the dough was made, it was put into
sacks, rind carried on the donkey's back' to
the ovens in the centre of the village, so n ,
to bake it immediately after it was kneaded.
On arriving, the laugh was divided into
portions weighing three pounds each. The
long, narrow wooden tables on the trussels
were then placed down the room, and to my
surprise about twenty men came in and
ranged themselves on one side of the tables.
A lump of dough was banded to the nearest,
which he commenced kneading and km.ck
ing about, and then passed it to his neigh
bor, who did the same, and so on success
ively till all had kneaded it, when it was
soft as new putty, and ready for the oven.
Of course as soon as the first baker hands
the loaf to his neighbor, another is given to
him, and so on till the whole quantity of
dough is kneaded by them all. The balser'.l
wife and daughter shape them for the oven.
Some of the loaves are divided into small
ones, and immediately baked. The ovens
are very large end not heated by fires under
them; but a quantity of twigs of the herbs
of sweet mnjoram and thyme, which cover
the bills in great pr o f u si o n, are put in t!::
oven and ignited. They beat the oven to
the extent required; and as the bread
baked the oven gets gradually colder, so the
bread is never burned.
They knead the bread in Spain with such
force that the palm of the hand and second
joints of the baker's fingers are covered witii
corns; and it ro effects the chest that ti.cy
cannot work for more than two hours at
time. They can be heard from some dis
tance, as they give a kinder guttural sound
—ha, ha—as they work, which they say
eases the ches,t. Our sailers hare the saw,
fancy when hoisting a sail.
Laro kept a small loaf of Sparn-1,
bread for sererai months in a dry place. nt:
then immersed it in boiling water, and re
baked it, and I can assure my readers !La:
it was neither musty nor sour.
ia..liair-cm soar em fellows—the MOH
who endeavor to look fiercely by cultivating
'r.,fu'.• wllbdcers.