It was desertedclosed shutters, empty houses and shops, not so much as the chance to buy a round, flat loaf of black breada shell of a town, with a few ravenous cats prowling about and forgotten chickens pecking the bare cobblestones.

The walls were of compact cobblestones, rough-laid and stuccoed with adobe and sand.

As a citizen of Connecticut it gave me quite a start to see, carelessly exposed to the weather on the rough cobblestones of the plaza, bright new hardware from New Haven and New Britainlocks, keys, spring scales, bolts, screw eyes, hooks, and other "wooden nutmegs.

Number Five Calle de la Merced has its history like the rest of the monasteries, and the rounded cobblestones of the large courtyard bear to-day a black stain where, the curious inquirer will be told, the caretakers of the empty house have been in the habit of cooking their bread on a brazier of charcoal fanned into glow with a palm leaf scattering the ashes.

Here I camped, making my bed on smooth cobblestones.

It was a true October night, raw and cold, with a white fog crawling over the wet, shining cobblestones, and blurring the dim oil-lamps.