The assassination of President Olivero

Which took place in the autumn of 1861

Was for the world at large one of those

innumerable incident of a violent nature

Which characterise the politics

Of the South American continent


Your Spanish is better than mine

Did you study it at college

No there was no need

As my grandmother was Spanish

Did she live in Spain

No she moved to England

When she was very young

As you can see I am familiar

With the language but that is all


Do you know much about the book

I have some knowledge

The Green Child was written by Herbert Read

It deals with the 12th-century legend

Of two green children who mysteriously appeared

In the English village of Woolpit

Speaking an unknown language


What a curious book

Yes it is a rather strange story

I am not sure why the magazine

Saw fit to publish this article

It was an odd choice

As the book has no real links to Spain