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SUNLIGHT . 153
pocketbook is intimately involved, an expression of
comprehending sympathy, and which never permits
him to drive a beggar from his door with hard words,
though it may happen that a hundred beggars knock
at the door on one day. A foreigner finds it harder
to adapt himself. Particularly if the foreigner is a
housekeeper, she may wage a desperate struggle
against all these relatives of her servants who loll
about in her kitchen all day long, consuming her food
and wearing her clothes. But in the long run she will
yield, after which these light-moraled creatures will
serve her devotedly, will read her every wish from her
eyes, will weep loudly when they see her downcast and
sing when she smiles; invoke upon her head all the
kind gifts of heaven and earth, and be ready to do
everything for her. Yet even without permission, they
will take in advance their own share of all this plenty,
and their new kindliness of to-day often makes them
forget to translate into actions their goodwill of yes-
terday. This difficulty however is only a formal one,
and exists only when viewed from a northern Euro-
pean point of view.
The Andalusian is an excellent worker in the open
air. The soil of his country affords abundant evidence
of this. Give him a bare steep slope of rock and he
will hew steps into it and carry up the dirt on his own
back and then plant his crops. He will conduct the
thin mountain stream from its source over a distance
of many miles; will pipe it in primitive but ingeniously
constructed canals across the mountains in order to
irrigate his mite of artificial ground. Like a China-
man, he will carefully collect excrements in the road.
His technique is primitive; his tools and methods often
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