"If he speaks Spanish, my daughter can converse with him ; she has but shortly arrived from Spain."

“You should read Spanish,” he said. “It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but it has grandeur: it…

The Spanish are not the only ones selling their goods along the wharves and the inner streets.

Sixty-four percent more Spanish are functionally illiterate compared to Anglos in Lubbock (only 15 percent more of nonwhites than Anglos).