One long story from Patrañas, Rachel Harriette Busk's collection of Spanish stories, legendary and traditional (London, 1870), read in the book's own order after Part Two. Ana lies on the thyme-bed and looks through the sunbeams, and tells her little friend Lolita what she sees there: the little sprites who paint the flowers, teach the insects to hum and the birds to sing — and the story of Pura, the poor orphan girl the sprites never forgot, whose lace they wove, whose great stew they cooked, whose wedding sweet they perfumed, and whose three poor guests taught her husband a lesson he never forgot.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
In this part:
0:35 — Introduction
2:00 — What Ana Saw in the Sunbeam
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 or held stand named, with their reasons, in the shelf register, and the book's saints' legends and religious legends remain held for a separate ruling.
Music: the instrumental theme "Tampa Across the Water" is heard at the opening and the close. There is no music under the reading.
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