the best flavor at this time, As soon as moved, it begins to lose it. 
2m. 
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Sulanoingc 
A little pulque one day old is placed in the bottom of a tank* into this 
is poured the aguamisl fresh from the plants. In a few hoars this is 
covered 6 inches or more deep in foam, and the pulque is ready to be 
taken out and put in the pigskin sacks in which it goes to market,- a 
pigskin on either side of a burro who trudges off with them as thou# 
they were playthings, 
The barley was ripening fast during my stay and as at this time of 
th© year heavy hail storms sometimes occur at this altitude, whenever a 
shower comes up and it begins to thunder the people at the hacienda 
bring out two bottles of what they ©all glory water and a pain branch 
which are set up in front of the chapel and are supposed to ward off 
harm to the crops, A new finea ms being built and workmen had to pass 
the door of th© chapel scores of times a day. Each time, he pulled off 
Ms sombrero no matter how heavily he might b© loaded, and I sometimes 
saw them remove their hat® when passing at a distance of 50 yards, and 
the doer closed. In all parts of the country it is the proper thing to 
remove one’s hat when passing a cross and miy do so each time a church 
do®* is passed. In sam places usually small out of the way towns, al- 
most th© entire population fall down on their knees and cross themselves 
when the church bells ring for midday. Tochimeloo, Puebla, was one of 
these. In Guadalajara, Jalisco, when the bells ring for midday, nearly 
all the men take off their hats. 
Bull fights were being held almost every Sunday in Sulaa- 
eingo daring our stay and as th© fight Sr. Bel son and I am in Paehuca 
was not a very good one, we concluded to go to one here, especially as 
Peaeiano Dias Mexioos, most famous bun fighter, was to participate. 
Three bulls were killed and several horses j one of the picadoree or 
horseman who enter the ring to tease the bull and get him to gore the 
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