Source: Vuelos Cortos. Intentados, emprendidos y realizados por un Chimbo (El Nervión, Bilbao, 1894)
Through them, the famous sarama cart, so masterfully described by our brilliant and popular writer Argos in his delightful and Bilbao-esque Pasavolantes, used to travel more early in the morning and with more confidence than through others: That ancient cart, whose driver—who, believing he was correcting the natives, called the exotic scullery maids "the flatterer"—would ring a huge rattle, complementing the small bell placed on the saddle made of poles, which the intelligent mule would ring in its rhythmic march to announce to the less informed—notwithstanding the knocking—that the time had come to contribute their contingent to the wheeled Spoliarum.
Emiliano de Arriaga (1844-1919)
1894
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