Plucked tenderly away
From the brows of Christ two thousand thorns,
Such gracious birds are they."
St. James
The Galicians, butt of all Spain for their dulness, are shrewd enough in fact. It is said that those arrant knaves, the gypsies, dare not pass through Galicia for fear of being cheated. Like other unlettered peasants, Gallegos whet their wits on rhyming riddles.
"Who is the little pigeon,
Black and white together,
That speaks so well without a tongue