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THE SIESTA. 



are prone to share. The stores, private and 

 pubUc offices, are, by common consent, gene- 

 rally closed at one o'clock (that being the usual 

 dmner hour), and not re-opened till three. 

 During that interval nearly every kind of 

 business and labor is suspended. The streets 

 are comparatively deserted ; the rich and the 

 poor retire to their respective couches, and 

 remain wrapped in slumber, or 'thinking o' 

 nothing,' till the loud peal of the three o'clock 

 bell warns them to resume their occupations. 



