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class of people, by those to whom the feria is a great annual opportunity for gain and not a mere occasion for the display of a new gown or the entertainment of a host of friends.

"BUNUELOS, SENOR!"

"HELP!"

We have arrived in the streets of the much-talked-of buñuelos, and as we naturally have a desire to taste that famous production of Spanish cookery, we accept the pressing invitation of the rather forward damsels in charge of one of the buñuelo booths. We are served with cups of chocolate and with plates of rich, light, delicious, round, and well-browned, red-hot fritters, not unlike but superior to the great American doughnut. In the picture you can see piles of them on the left, freshly