BULLFIGHT IN MADRID
(A Legend of the Castanets)
In the opera, "Carmen," a girl who works in a cigarette factory of Seville, is loved by a torero, or bullfighter.
The Carmen of this story did not work in a cigarette factory. She was a dancer. But she, too, had an admirer who was a torero. His name was Pedro.
In a few days Pedro was going to fight in a most important corrida, or bullfight, in the city of Madrid. He was going to fight a very fierce and savage bull. But, strange to say, Pedro did not want to kill that bull.
Now, as a general rule, toreros would rather kill bulls than be killed by them, for which you cannot blame the toreros.
In this case, however, it was different. Pedro's father had raised this great bull, Rey, and Pedro was very fond of the animal. In a few days he was expected to go into the arena and kill his pet.