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Title: Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: O'Connor, Vincent Clarence Scott, 1869-
Subjects: Andorra -- Description and travel France -- Description and travel Pyrenees -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Long
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE ROAD TO THE COL DE TOSAS (page 232) To face page 208 GERONA 209 umbrellas; the butcher hacks off pieces of meat on his tableunder a pitiless sun; the cobbler plies his trade, and thesherbet-boy goes up and down with his cold drinks anda lump of ice. It is an easy-going philosophic people, courteous but demo-cratic, with the simple democracy of the East. The obHgingbarber smokes placidly as he shaves you, while his wife popsher head out of a mediaeval pane in the staircase wall andengages in the conversation; the waiter treats you as a con-fidential friend. The lottery-ticket seller haunts your dining-room at the best hotel; the newsboy comes up the marblestairs in his rags and his bare feet; children scuttle aboutupon your threshold, and walk gravely up and down theRambla at night, amongst the officers in uniform and thepretty ladies. At the late dinner a little girl of five, with herhair beribboned and arranged, sits with her parents, lookingfor all the world as if she had steppe

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