SUN AND SHADOW IN SPAIN

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THE ARAB QUARTER, TANGIERS.

SUN AND SHADOW
IN SPAIN

BY
MAUD HOWE
Author of “Roma Beata,” “Two in Italy,” Etc.

WITH PICTURES FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
AND ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR



BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1908
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Copyright, 1908,
By Little, Brown, and Company.

All rights reserved

Published November, 1908

The Tudor Press
BOSTON, U. S. A.
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To

ISABEL ANDERSON

This Book

IS

Affectionately Dedicated
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CHILD’S PLAY

On the silver sands of First Beach in the Island of Rhode Island,children were at play digging foundations, raising fortifications,laying out the parks and streets of a city. They worked long and hard;time was short, and the tide was coming in. Each wave, as it hissed andbroke upon the beach, sent its thin line of foam a little nearer thebrave outer wall of the town. Then came the inevitable inundation; thechildren shrieked with glee as the city wall crumbled, the churchsteeple toppled down, the courthouse collapsed. When nothing of thethriving sand city remained, save its trees and flowers,—floatingbunches of red and green seaweed—the children, tired with much digging,sat down and looked across the water.

“What is over there?” asked the youngest, pointing an uncertain fingerto the East.

“That is the Atlantic Ocean,” answered the eldest, “the nearest land isthe coast of Spain.”

“When I grow up I shall go there,” said the youngest, “to see whatSpain is like.”

After many years the child sailed across the Atlantic from the NewWorld to the Old, passed between the Pillars of Hercules, through the“southern entrance of the ocean,” and landed on the Rock of{viii} Gibral