...contents of his book are well known in the Alhambra ; and Mateo does not seem very well satis, fied with the part he is made to perform. He takes offence,...imagine, at certain expressions referring to himself as a " simpleminded" creature : now, if there is one thing more than another on which he prides himself,...

...contents of his book are well I known in the Alhambra; and Mateo does not seem very well satis* fied with the part he is made to perform. He takes offence,...intellect and stock of information; and twenty times a day he will say " Mateo sabe todo — Mateo knows everything: why ask such and such a man when Mateo...