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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



both handfuls over the raihng. Breakfast over, the 

 dancmg v^as resumed with new spnit. The fisca- 

 les were more amusing than ever ; all agreed that 

 the ball was muy allegre, or very gay, and I could 

 not but notice that, amid all this motley company 

 and extraordinary license, there was less noise than 

 in a private drawing-room at home. At two o'clock, 

 to my great regret, the ball of las Mestizas broke 

 up. It was something entirely new, and remains, 

 engraven on my mind as the best of village balls. 



