THE TOWN.


ality of war, and again with light-hearted
imitation of earnestness. It has rung, too, for
that strange gayety of Good Friday night, -
the reaction from the forty days of darkness,
which wore the guise of devotion.


 For to shoot at straw figures decked with
feathers and tinsel was a spiritual exercise,
when one called the effigies Yews. So, with
light-hearted laughter, as night fell, the Jews
were hung here and there in the Plaza, under
the live-oak trees or upon the lamp-posts, so
that when morning dawned there might be no


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