Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark.
- Thomas Allibone Janvier
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Legends of the city of Mexico / collected by Thomas A. Janvier ; illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![not far from Madrid in which just then a cross happened to be wanted; and there it remained usefully for some hundreds of years. At the end of that period—by which time everybody was dead who knew what was in¬ side of it—the cross was asked for by the Prior of a little convent in that townlet near Madrid, who desired it that he might have it refounded into a bell; and as the Prior was a worthy person, and as he really needed a bell, his re¬ quest was granted. So they made out of the cross a very beautiful bell: having on one side of it the two-headed eagle; and having on the other side of it a calvario; and having at the top of it, for its hanging, two imperial lions supporting a cross-bar in the shape of a crown. Then it was hung in the tower of the little convent; and the Prior, and all the Brothers with him, were very much pleased. But that worthy Prior, and those equally worthy Broth¬ ers, were not pleased for long, Senor: because the curses and the devils all were loose again— and their chance to do new wickednesses had come! On a night of blackness, without any warn¬ ing whatever, the whole of the townlet was 6 [75]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31349043_0117.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
