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all sorts. In this pleasant home, in the midst of the 
bright, intelligent circle composing the family of Senhor 
Franklin, we passed two days. After breakfast we dis- 
persed to our various occupations, the gentlemen being 
engaged in excursions in the neighborhood ; the evening 
brought us together again, and was enlivened with music, 
dancing, and games. The Brazilians are fond of games, 
and play them with much wit and animation. One of 
their favorite games is called " the market of saints " ; 
it is very amusing when there are two or three bright 
people to act the prominent parts. One person performs 
the salesman, another the padre who comes to purchase 
a saint for his chapel ; the company enact the saints, 
covering their faces with their handkerchiefs, and remain- 
ing as motionless as possible. The salesman brings in the 
padre, and, taking him from one to another in turn, de- 
scribes all their extraordinary miraculous qualities, their 
wonderful lives and pious deaths. After a few introduc- 
tory remarks on the subject of the purchase, the hand- 
kerchief is drawn off, and if the saint keeps his counte- 
nance and remains immovable during all the ridiculous 
things that are said about him, he comes off scot free ; 
but if he laughs he is subject to a forfeit. There are 
indeed few who stand the test ; for if the salesman has 
any tact in the game, he knows how to seize upon any 
funny incident or characteristic quality connected with the 
individual, and give it prominence. Perhaps the reader, 
knowing something of our hunt for glaciers, may guess 
this saint, Major Coutinho being salesman. " This, Sen- 
hor Padre, is rather a stout saint, but still of most pious 
disposition, and, meu Padre ! a wonderful worker of 
miracles ; he can fill these valleys with ice, he covers the 
