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1877.] to having the animals driven through the limits of their hamlets. The ganadero, mounted on his beautiful Andalusian steed and dressed in hose of leather and doublet profusely garnished with triple rows of metal buttons, is an imposing and curious ﬁgure. He has at his tongue's end many a story of hairbreadth escapes from whole herds of bulls. In the Guadarrama range of mountains these

ganaderos acquire, as shepherds and "bullwhackers" from earliest boyhood, the peculiar training necessary for their dangerous career.

At Valencia, as at Barcelona and Toledo, religious mystery-plays and processions form one of the chief amusements of the populace. In the principal theatre of Valencia The Passion of Christ is annually performed: the spectacle is