Publisher's Synopsis
All this must be displayed during the celebration, shaking off the dust of oblivion; even the famous lion of the blanquers! The moderns burst into impious laughter. The lion, too?... Yes, the lion, too. To Senor Vicente it seemed a dishonor on the part of the guild to forget that glorious beast. The ancient ballads, the accounts of celebrations that might be read in the city archives, the old folks who had lived in the splendid epoch of the guilds with their fraternal camaraderie, -all spoke of the blanquers' lion; but now nobody knew the animal, and this was a shame for the trade, a loss to the city.
