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an acknowledgment for his generosity. Then 

 the clown mentioned the name of some other 

 person, and so forth. After the dancer had 

 exhibited to the health of several persons, a 

 slack rope was hung between two coco-trees 

 and at a great height from the ground : to this 

 the man removed, where he continued dancing 

 until a late hour to the health of every one 

 whose name his clown could think of. 



On the following day, after the service of the 

 church was over, the intrudo jokes and tricks 

 began, and before the conclusion of the sport 

 in the evening, each person had been obliged 

 to change his clothes several times. The ladies 

 joined with heart and soul, and particularly the 

 good old lady of Macaxeira, who was wet 

 through and through, and yet carried on the 

 war. The priests were as riotous as the rest, 

 but their superiority of manner even here was 

 perceivable ; their jokes were well-timed, and 

 were not accompanied by any brutality of beha- 

 viour ; there was a seeming deference in their 

 manner, when they were drenching the person 

 upon whom they made an attack, and they took 

 care that what they threw was clean, which with 

 others did not always happen. 



On Monday morning every one rose fresh for 

 action, and to work we went until three o'clock 

 in the afternoon, scarcely affording time for 

 eating. We then adjourned to the sea-shore; 



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