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t.kee oat 10 small qGsaiItSes, and beaten
in the palm II the hands tO thin cake,
and baked quickly IA . fat esrthen dish
os-r the fire. IL is in this crude way the
food Of this people is prepared. Ii they
had mills t. grind the corn they would
not use them: and if the meal from u
mill Was given to them. doubt if they
would use il; they understand their way
of making tortilias, and are adverse to
any innovation upon their old time meth
cd. While they are beating the tortillas
by hand, the air confined by the dough
escapes with a sudden pop, and it is easy
to know when they are preparing this
food by the continued pop, pop, popping
sound. That noise WAS tor awhile
mystery to me, for l seldom passed by a
kitchen from which it did not emanate.
The cook was an idiotic looking woman
with head Of bushy, frowzled hair, and
rather an obese form. She was not u pat
tern for personal cleanliness, nor were
her charms Or her attractions great. Her
scratching her head with one hand, while
she superintendent the operation of cook
ing the tortillas with the other. If it
was source of qualification to her, she
must have been happy being, for she
did not even for moment suspend the
operation. After getting thoroughly
dried, found that somehow 1had lost the
sense of keen relish for the evening
meal, but the keen appetite of the next
morning overcame I'LL rcpugnauce, and l
concluded that the best way would be to
"Shut my eyes and 60 it blind"
On Sunday morning a quarrel took
place between one Of tho sons of our
host and one Of the neighb0rs, relative to
the trespass of COW in a corn. field.
High words passed between them, when
the son seized billet of wood and would
have smote his adversary, had not the al.
cade come up just at that moment and
interfered between them. He led off the
neighbor and threatened to come back for
the belligerent youth; this started the
women to crying, and for half an hour
they kept up monotOnOus wail, which
required no small effort on their part to
accomplish; their strength gave out at
last, and then their grief subsidized and
their tears ceased to how. About mid
night the alcadc came back, true to his
words, and amid another lugubrious con-
cert the young man was taken away.
He was confined in the house of the al
cade, that is, he was put into the house
and told not to leave it; and rs there
were no means of fastening him in, it
became a matter of parole or convenience
whether he staid or not. As his sweet
heart was daughter of the alcade, it is
presumable he did not try to get away.
Beside, it would be deemed dishonorable
to escape from such an implied imprison.
mont; the Mexican has strong sense of
honor in such matters, and rarely vio-
lates it. The peon who would steal the
last thing you had about you, would
guard at the risk of his life any thing
with which you might entrust him. 80
long as the restriction of honor remained
he would be true to his trust; but in five
minutes after be had returned your prop
erty to you, he would not hesitate to
steal it, if the opportunity TO do 40 pre-
sented itself.-Beeswax, in s. r. Com
merci0i ADVOCATE.
The First Spider.
TALE FRon MYTHOLOGY.
When. - yoa sis reading OF writing.