Good-Night (Buenas Noches) - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
By Eleanor Gates and Arthur Rackham
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Good-Night (Buenas Noches) - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham - Eleanor Gates
GOOD-NIGHT
I
SCARLET fuchsias on a swaying branch freckled the ‘dobe wall behind Loretta’s perch. The parrot, her claws wide apart, her brilliant rudder tilting to balance her gray body, industriously snapped at the blossoms. One secured at last, she turned slowly about and, with infinite care, let it drop upon the open pages of Padre Alonzo’s book.
The padre brushed the flower away and glanced up.
"Buenos días, señor! clacked Loretta;
buenos días! buenos días! buenos días!"
Good-day to thyself,
retorted the padre. He spoke in Spanish, shaking a stout finger. And tear not the flowers again. They be the last of the kind till after the New Year. So take warning, I say, lest thou find thyself thrust without the garden.
Loretta recognized displeasure in his voice. She mumbled an inquiring "Ga-a-wk! ga-a-wk!" and shifted thoughtfully from foot to foot. But, presently, the padre having resumed his reading, she turned once more to catch at the swaying branch.
When a second fuchsia came fluttering down to his hand, Padre Alonzo uncrossed his sandals and rose. "Oh!