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TUXPAN CATHEDRAL 



del monte (devils of the mountain) will roar out at us 

 and carry us down with them if we are not good." 

 A moment later and he was helping his band of dusky 

 onuchachos to round up some unruly calves which had 

 ajjpeared from somewhere. 



The cathedral's bell is soft and sweet ; the thought 

 of the Catholic legends brings the mediaeval past 

 into vivid reality ; Colima's snow peak gleams with 

 the last rays of the sun, long since hidden from us ; 

 but all this is put out of mind or at least subordi- 

 nated to indistinctness in our revery, when the taller 



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