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172 DAYS IN THE SUN
women and children, too; a gendarme is wounded or
killed. You may live in a city without suspecting that
anything is going on until you read the telegrams in
the Madrid papers on the day after. Uprisings are
such an every-day matter. It is only because of the
lificulty of organization that such uprisings do not
lake place simultaneously in all parts of the country.
But there have been cases, and there may again be
cases, in which the people’s powers of organization
will be sufficient for a general upheaval. In that event,
they will be found lacking only in all the things that
assure successful revolutions: resources, weapons, re-
liable leaders. Don Louis and the others—for the
most part well-to-do men of the world who need some-
thing to keep them amused—will drop the whole busi-
ness when things reach that stage. The most prac-
tical among them will sell out to the government; and
the people will permit themselves to be shot down like
sheep, with that peculiar contempt for death which is
characteristic of Spain. The survivors will then begin
to hatch a new revolution, without having gained the
slightest lesson from experience.
_Each cottager has been told to bring a farm-laborer
with him, and two or three hundred men are thus
gathered in the evening in the Worker’s Home, a great
bare interior, the attic chamber of which harbors the
evening school. Alfonso M. delivers the introductory
speech, a short but impressive account of the Wolf
(Capital), with a bone lodged in his throat, and the
Stork (Labor), which pulls the bone out for him. The
Wolf’s answer to the Stork when the Stork asks for
his reward:
“Did I not have your head between my teeth? and
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