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the finca (farm). This all sounded reasonable enough if 
the man had not been eating, and so I inquired: “If one, why 
not another.” For a moment he seemed confused, but with 
a wave of the hand and.a bow (the Spanish way of dismiss- 
ing a troublesome question) he answered: “It is too early 
for ladies.” 
I felt that I would better go hungry than to insist in the 
face of such gallant sentiments but my bibliophile friend ap- 
peared. She knows the ways of the country, the language, 
and best of all has a fund of compliments that even put a 
Spanish gentleman to shame, and like magic the breakfast 
appeared—oranges, bread, hot milk, and even pan dulce 
(sweet biscuit.) 
The stars were still shining as I walked through the long 
quiet streets, lined with adobe houses, all one-story, and rich 
in Moorish tints of yellow and pink and azure blue. The sun 
was only just warming up the hillsides when I came into the 
open country. The road was cut through the hills and on 
both sides the land rose quickly into a rough foothill region, 
_ sparsely covered with trees and flowery bushes. On the first 
rise there were scattered pines, and in the direction of the 
city I could see the perfect cones of the volcanoes. The air 
was fresh and invigorating, and I spent a wonderful three 
hours on that warm hillside. There was a bush covered with 
blossoms that looked like our red pentstemons literally full of 
humming birds and a tree, which for want of a better name, 
I called the Senecio tree, swarming with bees; and there were 
birds very like our Baltimore Oriole, but with heavier bills, 
eating the berries from a Solanum. On the larger trees, I 
could hear the insistent drumming of woodpeckers, and oc- 
casionally I caught a glimpse of one as it flew from tree to 
tree, a brown-speckled bird with a gleam of azure when it 
flew. Indian men and women were preparing bundles of 
wood and passed me now and then with a “Buenos dias, 
Senora.” A small boy came down from the pine ridge to 
try his English upon me. He had once had a little English, 
at a school in Guatemala City, at least so I gathered, and he 
