Three more stories from Patrañas, Rachel Harriette Busk's collection of Spanish stories, legendary and traditional (London, 1870), read in the book's own order after Part One's Juanita the Bald. A Provençal minstrel finds his songs stolen and sung badly by the town boot-maker — and the quarrel ends in the strangest bargain in Spanish story. A proud carnation scorns the broken pot that raised it, and learns what the wind teaches. And on a bare sierra, a hermit shows a young merchant three fig-trees — one heavy with fruit, one green with leaves only, one withered — and reads him the parable of how men are truly to be judged.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
In this part:
2:08 — The Ballad-maker and the Boot-maker
6:53 — El Clavel
13:22 — The Hermit and the Fig-tree
Source: Rachel Harriette Busk (1831–1907), Patrañas; or, Spanish Stories, Legendary and Traditional (London: Griffith and Farran, 1870) — public domain. The stories were screened in the order they stand in the book under this shelf's standing rule; those set aside stand named, with their reasons, in the shelf register, and the book's saints' legends remain held for a separate ruling.
Music: the instrumental theme "Wind-Swept Flight" is heard at the opening and the close, and briefly between the stories. There is no music under the reading.
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