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Letters from Majorca. 293 The grapes I have already mentioned, and we did -not scruple to throw dignity to the winds and make much of our opportunity. Bags were at a premium, and we had occasionally to put up with cabbage leaves. But what mattered, in a place where we were unknown, and had only the gaze of the natives to confound us? Jt is one of the charms of Mallorca that so long as you do not break the Commandments, or set the Catechism at defiance, you may do what you will. H. C. carried the spoils, and was very careful that—to quote for the third time the inevitable Mrs. Gamp—lI should eat fair of the (ee See a a i ra > fe mt if it thy ie i L ii pnd it pi berg ‘d ll ne an vw ee i = ———— re titat . (a. ape - A CAAA TERE \ \\ - L = \\ —- H ig it THE OVAL CLOISTERS. fruit that she preferred in the more liquid torm. But you will not be surprised to hear that he acted Mrs. Prig on this occasion, who, in absence of mind, replenished her cup too often. This dissolved their friendship: ours fortunately exists on a sounder basis. One man had a stall of pomegranates, large, red, luscious. These he was selling at a halfpenny each. An honest man, too, for when we wanted to pay him a trifle more than his charge, for a slight service rendered, he put back the coin into our hands. He dexterously opened the pomegranates and prepared them in the most convenient form for eating, thoroughly enjoying our appre- ciation of the fruit and of his cleverness. Apples and oranges also abounded ; and though the oranges were scarcely ripe, they gave out an exquisite flavour and perfume unknown to England. COMMICOOOKS.C©