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...that Friday learns English and performs complicated chores. But the Negro-Indian half-caste will go no further; he refuses to be a black Englishman. Although he is tireless, he is not diligent. He is clever, but not rational. For him, the Church of England, punitive ditch digging and goatskin trousers are merely the mystifying apparatus of Crusoe's games. At last, Crusoe realizes that Friday's instincts may be more sensible than his own. He abandons his bookkeeping system of morality, adopts Friday's formless sun worship and lives in harmony with his friend...
...rally at Montejurra. Since his future depends on Franco's whim, Carlos meekly flew off with his bride to the Canary Islands instead. His younger sister Cecilia, wearing an ivory dress and red beret, went in his place. Priming their parched throats with spurts of red wine from goatskin botas, the Carlists cheered lustily for Carlos and shouted their contempt for Juan Carlos, whom they scornfully call "Juanillo." Proclaimed one Carlist banner: "We don't want Juanillo even if it's an order from El Caudillo...
...claim it as their native sport. The object is simple enough: players wearing basketlike cestas heave a ball against a wall until someone misses. But ah, the details. The court is about 200 ft. long; the ball is so hard (rubber core wound with nylon string, covered with goatskin) and goes so fast (up to 175 m.p.h.) that the front wall has to made of 12-in.-thick granite block-concrete would crack from the impact. The ricocheting angles are infinite, requiring incredible feats of agility, timing and strength. And there are times when just staying alive amid the buzzing...
Living Fable. Sunstroke is the fable of an owl who cowers before a rising sun that means resurrection to the rest of the world but only terror to him. Pastoral tells of extraordinary provincial people who suspend themselves in goatskin bags every winter in a hibernation that is a living death...
...Clement Attlee's Labor government, rates one sentence of genealogy: "His Lordship is son of the late Henry Morrison, police constable of Brixton, England." On the other hand, Burke's-which sends the Queen a free copy of the $32.34 book specially bound in her favorite blue goatskin-devotes 45 pages of minute type to the royal family's doings since the days of its ancestor Egbert, King of Wessex (d. 839), who was one of England's first kings and grandfather of Alfred the Great...