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    The Little Spanish Dancer
    The Little Spanish Dancer
    The Little Spanish Dancer
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    The Little Spanish Dancer

    By Madeline Brandeis

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Little Spanish Dancer - Madeline Brandeis

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      Title: The Little Spanish Dancer

      Author: Madeline Brandeis

      Release Date: August 28, 2012 [EBook #40592]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LITTLE SPANISH DANCER ***

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      THE LITTLE

      SPANISH DANCER

      CONTENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      The Little Spanish Dancer

      CHAPTER I

      THE MAGIC CASTANETS

      Pilar was dancing in the Murillo (mū̍-rĭl´ō) Garden. It was a beautiful public garden named after the great Spanish painter, Murillo, who died in a house near by.

      Pilar had been born ten years ago in this old city of Seville (sē̍-vĭl´). If you had asked Pilar, Where is New York? she would doubtless have laughed with her lovely dark eyes and inquired, Is it in Seville? Because, to Pilar, as to most of her friends, there was only one world, and that world was Seville.

      Now a terrible thing was happening at Pilar's home this evening. But Pilar did not know it because she was dancing in the garden. Every night, after her grandfather went to bed, she ran off and danced with her friends to the music of a hurdy-gurdy.

      But tonight, after Pilar had left, her grandfather had been taken very ill. The neighbors had sent for a doctor, who shook his head gravely over the poor old man.

      Pilar knew nothing about this as she clicked her castanets and whirled about in the dance they call the Sevillana.

      She was one of the best dancers in her group. And why not? Her mother had been a dancer; her grandmother, too, yes, and her great-grandmother and her great-great—oh, ever so many great-grandmothers! They had all been dancers.

      Pilar's parents had died when she was a baby. She lived alone with her grandfather, and they struggled to keep the wolf named Hunger from their door. Her grandfather was a shoemaker, but he worked slowly these days because his hands were old.

      Once when Pilar was very little, someone had asked her what pleasures she enjoyed most. She had answered, The pleasures I enjoy most are—dancing!

      Now this could easily be the answer of every little girl in southern Spain. For while Italy sings, France designs, and Switzerland skates, Spain dances. Why, it is even possible that little girls in Seville would rather dance than go to moving picture shows!

      Yet everyone in Seville does not feel that way, for the many open air theaters all over the city are crowded. And what the people seem to like best are the American comedies.

      It was growing late, but Pilar seldom went to bed before midnight. She would have told you that evening was the time to live and to laugh and to dance. Then it was cool, while during the day the sun beat down cruelly and people slept for hours.

      Through the narrow streets Pilar made her way home at last. She heard little snatches of

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