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picture: 3. THK WATER VENDER 



back of the animars horns. 

 Sometimes the yoke of the wheel 

 span is lashed rigidly to the tim- 

 ber projecting from the cart; 

 and at each roll and jolt of the 

 cart over the rough mountain 

 roads the poor brutes' heads are 

 yanked and jerked to first one 

 side and then the other. 



Picture 3 is of an ''aguador" 

 (water vender), at Cuernavaca, 

 capital of the State of Morelos, 

 one time home of Cortes and 

 Maximilian. The can in front of 

 him, used for serving the water 

 from the barrel, is also hung by 

 a strap from his head. The 

 Mexican peon is rarely seen 

 carrying even the smallest pack- 

 age in his hands — he must hang 

 it from his head or shoulders, or 

 stow it inside the high crown of 

 his "sombrero" (as in the case 

 of small parcels). The writer 

 has seen a peon buy a centavo 

 or two of peanuts from a street 

 vender, take them, loose, in his 

 hands and toss them into the 

 broad, turned-up brim of his hat, 

 and stroll off down the street. 



In Picture 5 may be seen another 

 method of carrying water. The two men 

 shown in Picture 4 have crates which are 

 used to take farm produce and poultry 

 to market. They have disposed of their 

 loads in the city and are seen entering 

 the Church of "Nuestra Senora de Gua- 

 dalupe" (Our Lady of Guadalupe), the 

 shrine of the patron saint of Mexico at 

 Guadalupe. 



The ancient method of hoisting ore in 

 the Mexican mines was by means of the 

 leather bag (''zurron"), one of which 

 may be seen in Pic. 8. Though all of the 

 larger mines are now equipped with mod- 

 ern machinery, the zurron may still be 

 seen in small properties and in districts 

 remote from the railroads. Often the 

 zurroneros were mere boys ; but they 

 would carry their loads of 100 to 200 

 pounds up winzes and shafts, with only 

 the precarious footing afforded by the 

 "chicken-ladders" (notched poles four to 

 six inches in diameter). 



PICTURE 4. CRATES USED FOR CARRYING CHICKENS 

 TO MARKET 



