Photograph from G. M. Ker 



OFF FOR MARKET 



To the Mexican peon mind it is the hat, not the clothes, that makes the man. He may 

 go barefoot and in tatters, but if he has his hat, which combines the flare of a Merry Widow 

 with the exaggerated dome of a Derby, he will greet you with simple dignity and spontaneous 

 cheer, betraying no rankling against a state of virtual serfdom owing to the land-tenure laws 

 of Mexico. 



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