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Title: Three Vassar girls abroad. Rambles of three college girls on a vacation trip through France and Spain for amusement and instruction. With their haps and mishaps
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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LOOKING OVER THE PHOTOGRAPHS.
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THE GENERALIFE. GRANADA. j.q The g3psy quarter of Granada exercised a fascination over Barbara,— the horrible, old crones, the lazy galliard men, sporting velvet cos-tumes and smoking endless cigarettes, resembling the lilies of the fieldin immunity from toil and gorgeousness of apparel, and the bold,half naked children who clamored for money more as bandits de-manding plunder than as beggars asking alms,— all interested her im-mensely. I wish I were a man, she said, that I might study them moreclosely. George Borrows accounts of adventures with this evil peo-ple, of their trickery and theft, of Gil Bias like escapades and his ownwild rides through wilder regions with the gipsy Antonio, when sell-ing the Bible made Borrow also an outlaw, — always excited myimagination. I should like to know more about them. One day they made an excursion to the Generalife, the summerpalace of the Moors, which occupies an eminence overlooking theAlhambra. They passed a little rabble of children w

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