Part 9 (1/2)

LOTTERIES IN SPAIN.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Nearly all the Lottery tickets in Spain are publicly sold in the streets by Beggars: and _this_ is the sort of Vagabond in MADRID to whom Our Artist confided $16 for a ticket that won a prize of $5.]

SIGHT-SEEING IN SPAIN.

[Ill.u.s.tration: There are so many hundred apartments to be seen in the famous PALACE OF THE ESCORIAL, that Our Artist is obliged to follow his Brigand of a Guide rather rapidly, in order to view them all in one day.]

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist sees from the car-window, at a Rail-Road Station near Toledo, what, at a first glance, appears to be a statue of Napoleon Bonaparte,--but: (_see next page_.)]

A RAIL-ROAD OFFICIAL.

[Ill.u.s.tration:---- the Statue suddenly becomes animated and revolves; and the side-view reveals a CIVIL GUARD, with carbine and knapsack beneath his big military cloak.]

ARCHITECTURE IN CORDOVA.

[Ill.u.s.tration: A picturesque little half Moorish and half Spanish dwelling house, in the Calle Jesus Maria; with a couple of Priests in earnest discussion.]

BALCONIES IN SEVILLE.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Sketch of a private residence in Calle San Pablo; from the upper Balcony of which, Our Artist had a rose thrown to him, while a cloaked a.s.sa.s.sin of a probable Lover, glowered savagely at him from the doorway.]

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA.

[Ill.u.s.tration: The Barber of Seville, according to Rossini's Opera, and according to the way in which he is popularly believed to disport himself.--(_See next page._)]

A BARBAROUS PROCEEDING.