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knew half dozen English phrases. "Are you American or 

 English? Is your President Mr. Roosevelt? Are you mar- 

 ried? How old are you?" When I satisfied him upon all 

 these important questions, and he had helped me catch a large 

 butterfly, and accepted with great thanks $2.00 (10 cents) he 

 went back to his wood cutting. A white-throated humming 

 bird came and settled on my net, and every few minutes I 

 added a new species of bee to my collection. 



Much too soon it was eleven o'clock, and I felt I must get 

 back near enough to the road to see the carriage. Unfortu- 

 nately, when I could see the road I could be seen, and, as 

 many Indians were passing along, I found myself inspected 

 by them. I tried to go on with my collecting as though I was 

 quite accustomed to work with fifty Indians looking on. In 

 the main, I did not think them unfriendly, though I was told 

 that they do not like foreigners. I saw no white people and 

 I understood that there were very few in that part of the 

 country. An Indian came and looked over the fence and asked 

 me what I was doing. I explained in Spanish, which I had 

 carefully learned by heart, that I caught butterflies and flies, 

 mariposas and moscas, and I hoped it was permitted. At that 

 he began shaking his stick in my face, and talking volumes 

 of Spanish, none of which I understood. I tried to pretend 

 that I took no further interest in him and went on with my 

 collecting, but when he began to crawl under the fence I 

 crawled out. I could argue the case better on the road, and I 

 expected the carriage every minute. He came up near to me 

 waving his stick, and when I seemed not to be taking the mat- 

 ter as seriously as he intended, he called and a man with a 

 gun appeared, possibly a soldier. He was the funniest sight 

 I ever expect to see his gun was a most curious old-fashioned 

 sort ; he was barefooted, of course, and had on trousers made 

 of flour sacks with "Pillsbury's Best" quite conspicuous on 

 one leg. He said that I was arrested and I laughed the flour 

 sack trousers were so very funny ! I explained again what I 

 was doing, and that I was a friend of the priest, who would be 



