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SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 



in chanting during the whole day, to the 

 great delight and gratification of their bristly 

 audience, who seem fully to appreciate the 

 merits of the performers. 



The proprietor of one of these establish- 

 ments himself attended us, and explained 

 with much complaisance the use of the various 

 apartments ; he assured me that the premises 

 cost him 60,000 dollars, and that his sales be- 

 fore the revolution amounted to about 2000 

 dollars per week : indeed, his display of dia- 

 monds, and his three splendid carriages with 

 fine horses, standing in the yard, bespoke him 

 to be a man of some opulence and importance. 

 His stock are bred at a hacienda or farm be- 

 longing to him, near Otumba, and driven to 

 Mexico, to be fattened, when about eight 

 months old. The breed is said to have 

 been brought originally from the Philippine 

 Islands. 



Dogs. — The breed of this useful domestic 



