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A CONSTELLATION OF LANTERNS
ARCHES OF GAS LAMPS
We meantime wander on amid the ever-increasing throng, passing the theaters of showmen and the tents of mountebanks, listening to blind musicians, watching the dancing girls. The din about us is as deafening as that upon an Exposition Midway; but here the noise is a distinctly Spanish noise, a mingling of