Note 4 — Chapter I · UNEXPLORED SPAIN INTRODUCTORY
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At a big hotel the menu on May 26 included (as usual) “partridges.” We emphasised a mild protest by refusing to eat them; but the landlord scored with both barrels. On opening our luncheon-basket next day (we had a twelve-hours’ railway journey), there were the rejected redlegs! We had to eat them then—or starve!