AN INCIDENT OF SPANISH TRAVEL.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1516, 22 January 1886, Page 4

AN INCIDENT OF SPANISH TRAVEL.

At Jan we had in hour before the train started, and we dined partly to fill up the time, and we found the landlord at niggardly with his food as he waa liberal with his charges, and just as we felt we were beginning our dinner, we found that only the bill was to come. Then, in a kind of drag with three horses, we were about to start on our way to the station, not so much to avoid walking as for protection from the storm of piteous appeals to our charity—appeals we bad no means of examining—but just at the moment of starting toe proprietor appeared with a tiny piece of paper, stating three pesetas were charged for our ride. u Why three pesetas ? There are only two of n«" " One peseta for the luggagi ■" What luggaget" "The luggaeeofthissenor." " This senor has !no luggage." " Then the luggage of that senor." " That senor has no luggage." "Then for the luggage juft put on the roof" "ft is not ours." " But here is the bill; three r©B*taa." "Then alter it to two." "But the luggage?" "Keep it for the other peseta." There was no appeal from this, and we escaped on payment of the right fare—two pesetas. We faved the tenpence, owing to our experience I of a similar oversight at Madrid, where I an omnibus-driver demanded and obtained eight pesetas (six and eightpence) from four of us, though we knew, and he knew we knew, it to be a simple robbery; but the train was just starting, and he was sure we would not put off an eighteen hours' ; ride for a whole day for the sake of a, few shillings, or even to expose a roguery. But here at Jaen we were I in no hurry, and could as easily walk an ride; so we were firm and carried off our tenpence. — CasselFa Family Magazine. i