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60 DAYS IN THE SUN
by honest labor. You need first to cut off twenty-five
thousand of the highest heads. But it will come—the
revolution will come—you will see. We will have a
republic, and the authorities will come to me and my
friends and say: If you please, you have tilled the
count’s soil for all these years, while he has devoured
the crops; now it is yours, and you may eat up every-
thing that grows on it! If you wish to send your chil-
dren to the university, you may; the doors are open.
Or, if you wish to take a trip to the Alhambra, or up
to Madrid, you have only to take the train. For the
task of the new government will be, not to seek
strength for itself from the bread that we supply, but
to help us get our own food. Come and see! Come
and taste! It will be a fine life.”
His offspring nodded in agreement; he had sat with
a question on his lips for some time, but remained re-
spectfully silent. Now he hastens to break in: “Do
you know Kropotkin? He must be from the same
country as you?”
“No, but I know his works. Have you really read
Kropotkin
?”
“T have not read him, for father and I cannot read.
But my son-in-law reads him to us at home in the vil-
lage, at the revolutionary club of the farm-workers.
They are good books, particularly La Conquista del
Pan (‘The Conquest of Bread’). He is a man, I tell
you; here’s his picture.” He takes a Spanish anarchist
paper from his pocket and shows us Kropotkin’s pic-
ture.
“Yes,” says the father, “if we only had men like
him. But our big men sell themselves for money. We
are left without leaders. Our roots are sound. The
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