what then becomes of them, come with me to this butcher-*shop of the Plaza de Toros where already, before the audience has left the amphitheater, there are hanging, neatly dressed, the carcasses of five of the bovine bravos of the afternoon, while number six is being rapidly prepared for market. We become vegetarians for the ensuing week.
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TWO TOWERS OF THE ALHAMBRA Photograph by Harlow D. Higinbotham
Local meat-merchants, so we are told, purchase the beef at auction and sell it to the poor; for although it is black and tough, it is not considered unfit for human consumption. As to the slain horses—pardon just one more unpleasant picture—they are deposited in a courtyard to which the ragmuffins of the street have free entrance, and where they count with eagerness the victims of the day, showing not the slightest aversion, but instead scrambling over the bodies, examining and commenting on the wounds,
