The merchants are of the north of Spain, but the dancers and bull-fighters are Andalusians.

And just as our Americans of the North admire the lazy dialect of the South, so the north-Spaniards admire the dialect of Andalusia, and even imitate it because they think it has a fashionable sound--quite as British fashionables cultivate the habit of dropping final _g_'s, as in "huntin'" for "hunting." Virginia, more than any other State I know of, feels its entity as a State.

If you meet a Virginian traveling outside his State, and ask where he is from, he will not mention the name of the city in which he resides, but will reply: "I'm from Va'ginia." If, on the other hand, you are in Virginia, and ask him the same question, he will proudly reply: "I'm from Fauquier," or "I'm from Westmoreland," or whatever the name of his county may be.

The chances are, also, that his trunks and traveling bags will be marked with his initials, followed not by the name of his town, but by the abbreviation, "Va." I was told of one old unreconstructed Virginian who had to go to Boston on business.

The gentleman he went to see there was exceedingly polite to him, asking him to his house, putting him up at his club, and showing him innumerable courtesies.