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CHAPTER XIV. 

HOW KING BOABDIL EL CHICO MARCHED OVER THE BORDER. 

The defeat of the Christian cavaliers among the mountains of Malaga, and the successful inroad of Muley Abul Hassan into the lands of Medina Sidonia, had produced a favorable effect on the fortunes of the old monarch. The inconstant populace began to shout forth his name in the streets, and to sneer at the inactivity of his son Boabdil el Chico. The latter, though in the flower of his age and distinguished for vigor and dexterity in jousts and tournaments, had never yet fleshed his weapon in the field of battle; and it was murmured that he preferred the silken repose of the cool halls of the Alhambra to the fatigue and danger of the foray and the hard encampments of the mountains. 

The popularity of these rival kings depended upon their success against the Christians, and Boabdil el Chico found it necessary to strike some signal blow to counterbalance the late triumph of his father. He was further incited by his father-in-law, Ali Atar, alcayde of Loxa, with whom the coals of wrath against the Christians still burned among the ashes of age, and had lately been blown into a flame by the attack made by Ferdinand on the city under his command. 

Ali Atar informed Boabdil that the late discomfiture of the Christian knights had stripped Andalusia of the prime of her chivalry and broken the spirit of the country. All the frontier of Cordova and Ecija now lay open to inroad; but he especially pointed out the city of Lucena as an object of attack, being feebly garrisoned and lying in a country rich in pasturage, abounding in cattle and grain, in oil and wine. The fiery old Moor spoke from thorough information, for he had made many an incursion into these parts, and his very name was a terror throughout the country. It had become a by-word in the garrison of Loxa to call Lucena the garden of Ali Atar, for he was accustomed to forage its fertile territories for all his supplies. 

1. what did Ali tell Boabdil?
2. what did the popularity of the kings depend on?
3. who lost in the the mountains of Malaga?
4. what did this lead to?
5. who was inactive?
6. had the son ever used his weapon?
7. what did he prefer?
8. what did Boabdil el Chico think was necessary?
9. who is his father in law?
10. who attacked the city?
11. what city has lots of cows and grain?

Numbered answers:
1. that the late discomfiture of the Christian knights had stripped Andalusia of the prime of her chivalry and broken the spirit of the country
2. upon their success against the Christians
3. the Christian cavaliers
4. a favorable effect on the fortunes of the old monarch
5. The populace
6. yes
7. he preferred the silken repose of the cool halls of the Alhambra to the fatigue and danger of the foray and the hard encampments of the mountains.
8. to strike some signal blow to counterbalance the late triumph of his father.
9. Ali Atar
10. Ferdinand
11. Lucena