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superior of the said mezquita, that he might be there instructed in order that he 
might afterwards become an alfaqui; but if the parents resolved that when the 
infant attained a fit age he should go and serve in the military profession, they im- 
mediately offered him to the master, making a promise of him, which master of the 
young men and boys was named Teachcauh or Telpuchtlato; which offering they 
accompanied with a present of provisions and other things for its celebration; and 
when the infant attained a fit age they delivered him up to the said master. 
In the plate a is a woman lately delivered; the four roses, b, signify 
four days, at the completion of which period the midwife carried forth 
the new born infant to be bathed; c, is the cradle with the infant; d, 
the midwife; e, the symbols; jf, g, h, the three boys who named the 
new-born infant; 7, the rushes, with the small vessel of water; j, the 
brooms, distaff, spinning wheel, and basket; /, the father of the infant; 
1, the superior alfaqui; m, the infant in the cradle, whose parents are 
offering it at the mezquita; », the mother of the girl; 0, the master of 
the boys and young men. 
Kingsborough’s Pl. Lrx—here Pl. xxxv, treats of the time and man- 
ner in which the Mexicans instructed their children how they ought to 
live. 
The first section shows how parents corrected their children of 3 
years old by giving them good advice, and the quantity of food which 
they allowed them at each meal was half a roll. 
The three circles, a, indicate 3 years of age; b, denotes the father of 
the boy; ¢, the boy; d, the half of a roll; e, the mother of the girl; 7, 
the half of a roll; g, the girl of 3 years of age. 
The second section represents the parents employed in the same way, 
in instructing their children when they attained 4 years of age, when 
they began to exercise them by bidding them to do a few slight things. 
The quantity of food which they gave them at each meal was a roll. 
The father of the boy is shown at h; the boy, 4 years of age, at i; J, 
a roll; k, the mother of the girl; /, a roll; m, the girl of 4 years. 
The third section shows how the parents employed and exercised 
their sons of 5 years of age in tasks of bodily strength; for example, 
in carrying loads of wood of slight weight, and in sending them with 
light bundles to the tianquez or market place; and the girls of this age 
received lessons how they ought to hold the distaff and the spinning 
wheel. Their allowance of food was a roll. 
In this section, x shows the father of the boy; 0, two boys of 5 years 
of age; p, a roll; q, aroll; 7, the mother of the girl; s, a roll; ¢, the 
girl of 5 years of age. 
The fourth section shows how parents exercised and employed their 
sons of 6 years in personal services, that they might be of some assist- 
ance to their parents; as also in the tianquez, or market places, in pick- 
ing up from the ground the grains of maize which lay scattered about, 
and the beans and other trifling things which those who resorted to 
the market had dropped. The girls were set to spin, and employed in 
other useful tasks that they might hereafter, through the said tasks and 
