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224 DAYS IN THE SUN
him and treat him ill. La Incarnación, who stuck him
in the stove and singed him, drew a winning number in
the lottery. But Beppa could not find the heart to do
such a thing; she would rather remain poor.
It is also good luck to obtain one’s San Antonio as a
present—from a man, in the case cf a woman; and
vice-versa. This is indicative of San Antonio’s im-
mense importance in the relations between the sexes.
San Antonio has jurisdiction over the most important
and difficult of all the phenomena of life, namely, love.
In Andalusia, where the young women are so sharply
segregated from the other sex, some sort of go-be-
tween must be resorted to, and the saint does yeoman
service in this connection. He isa regular pander. In
Granada he has a church of his own, in which mass is
said at twelve o’clock noon, every Tuesday. He does
not seem to mean much for men; at least they do not
attend his mass. But in the end it does not matter,
for the women are all the more assiduous in their at-
tendance, women of all ages and stations. Here are
aged widows who wish to find a husband to support
them in their old age, as well as younger widows, who
have no objections to assuming the discomforts of
marriage for its own sake. Here are married women
who beg the saint to make their husbands a little more
faithful to them and who call down his anger upon
their more fortunate rivals. The mass is also at-
tended by young girls who have cast an eye from their
balconies on this young man or that and who beg the
saint to turn the young man’s thoughts to them—
simply to make him give them a little attention, for
they will take care of the rest themselves. Then there
are very young girls whose affections have not yet
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