And flies without a feather?"
"A tree with twelve boughs and four nests on a bough,
In each nest seven birdlings,—unriddle me now."
In many of their proverbial sayings one gets the Spanish tang at its best. "A well-filled stomach praises God."
"Why to Castile
For your fortune go?
A man's Castile
Is under his hoe."
And I fear if my comrade were to speak, in Spanish phrase, of our return to Galicia, she would bid St. James expect us "on Judgment Day in the afternoon."
Works by Alice Morse Earle