A YO UNG NA TURALIS T. 119 



know how we should ever have got up, if I'Encuerado had not 

 thought of cutting some branches of dwarf elder for walking- 

 sticks. Above everything, I wished to keep Lucien from the 

 suffering caused by coming in contact with the mala mujer, as the 

 Mexicans call it, and it was with a sigh of relief that I saw him 

 safe and sound out of this cul-de-sac. 



