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SAN ANTONIO 211
midnight, the threshold between day and night, for
then all nature has a turning point. But the most im-
portant turning point is at the new year, and then
things can be changed easily—of course if you know
how. It is by no means simple.
If you wished to play the lottery, you must first go
out on the road and watch the figures lashed in the
sand by the lagarto (a large lizard) with his tail; for
that would be the number of the winning ticket.
“Ridiculous!” was the interruption heard from an
old working-man in the gas-works. “‘Silly stuff! The
controlling element is the natural force, that’s the
thing! It is just as with the gold on the sand-banks
of the Genil above Granada! Why does it float on
the surface, being so heavy? Simply because the sun
draws it! There is a relation between the sun and gold
as anybody can see from their brightness. Natural
forces are the whole thing. All this talk about lizards’
tails is silly stuf.” And he looked to me for corrobo-
ration.
“You always set such great store by your gas and
your natural forces, José, that one has to hold one’s
nose shut with her fingers,” said a corpulent woman,
every one laughing with her. “And what about
snakes? It is perhaps untrue also that snakes exist?
Everybody knows well enough that in the big tower be-
hind the Alhambra they found a snake not so many
years ago which was five or six yards long. She never
appeared, but occasionally you could tell that she was
alive because she would throw a young one more than
a yard long down into the yard.
“One fine day, when some men who had the devil in
them ascended the tower, she had disappeared, no man
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