FIESTA
Fiestas (fyĕs´täs) (festivals) and fairs are the joy of the Spanish people. Some are held upon saints' days. In Spain one celebrates the birthday of the saint for whom one is named.
Tonight there was a fiesta in Triana, which is across the bridge from Seville. It is where the gypsies live.
Pilar was on her way to Triana with a group of her friends. She was dressed in her dancing costume. She wanted to dance and use her magic castanets. This would be the last time she could do so. For of all her mother's souvenirs, only the castanets were now left. And tomorrow—
| PILAR IN HER COSTUME |
But Pilar did not like to think about that tomorrow. Juan had sold everything else out of the wooden chest. Everything else had gone, even the wooden chest itself—gone to pay for food and medicines.
He had sold the very old bottle of sherry wine, which had come from a well-known cellar of Jerez (hā̍-rāth´), once called Scheriz.
In this cellar there is a cluster of huge barrels, upon which are written noted names, such as the Prince of Wales' and our own President's. They contain wines made in the year of each person's birth.