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PLAZA DE TOROS
truthfully pictured, may offend or shock a humane public. Yet I assure you that the pictures do but shadow the horrors witnessed in the ring. Those who have attended many bull-*fights will tell you after I am done that the half has not been pictured nor been told. As we arrive before the entrance to the Plaza into which an eager public is pouring, let me confess that unlike the average Anglo-Saxon traveler, I do not sweepingly condemn the spectacle. Is our own race free from the reproach of inflicting suffering in the name of sport? We never dwell upon the pain re-