1892 
ChatT*i tjara 
(J&Ii&ao) 
Juno 24 
to 
Juno 30 
Mexican 
Nightingale 
Guadalajara 
to 
Celaya 
piercing tenderness in it that only the pen of a Keats could do it 
justice. It carries in it the very soul of a woodland spirit and 
conjures up a nameless sweet melancholy such as falls to the portion 
of a nature-lover when far away in some cloister-like shade of heavy 
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woodland where he forgets that ho is of humanity and its petty ills 
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a part, hut imsrely sinks into forgetfulness of all except that he 
too is a part of this nature-soul wherein dwells beauty and rest 
past mortal reach* The note rises and falls In its melody telling 
ox wild, wild things in remote forest depths and vine—hung canon 
walls where all alone for time unimaginable have gone on the beaut¬ 
eous changes of the flowering seasons under a sky that is never harsh 
in its severest moods. 
(The Tziirfcaontle is the mocking-bird and this name is said to 
mean bira ox* a hundred songs. The cctaaon same for humming-bird is 
chupa rosa * rose sucker.) 
Cn the 1st of July, I left Guadalajara and travelled by rail to 
Celaya in Guanajuato. The road follows up the valley of the Rio 
Grand® de Santiago all of this way and runs over a magnificently 
xertile region of rich black soil* The rains have made the country 
a mass of vivid green except where the farmers are working in the 
crops with their race tools. About Xrapuato are great strawberry 
fields where fine berries are raised, and here at Celaya also. In 
tne market here are now sold small apples, peaches, p cane granites, 
pears, quinces, melons, mangos, and a variety of other fruits. They 
are mainly small and of very poor quality since the fruits of the 
temperate zone require more care than they get here to give go od re¬ 
sults 
