. St. Nicholas [serial] . prices. They asked twenty centsfor a squirrel-monkey, and sixty for a young ant-bear, and only two dollars for a fine talking and tame snakes could be bought onthe street for a few pennies. We bought a monkey from a street peddlerfor half a dollar. The same man sold us a tamebadger for sixty cents, and on the wharf we met acouple of fisher-boys who had a still stranger pet, abig tortoise that followed them like a dog, and per-mitted a little child to ride on its back. We boughtit, too, for a French merchant showed us the houseof an honest gardener, w
. St. Nicholas [serial] . prices. They asked twenty centsfor a squirrel-monkey, and sixty for a young ant-bear, and only two dollars for a fine talking and tame snakes could be bought onthe street for a few pennies. We bought a monkey from a street peddlerfor half a dollar. The same man sold us a tamebadger for sixty cents, and on the wharf we met acouple of fisher-boys who had a still stranger pet, abig tortoise that followed them like a dog, and per-mitted a little child to ride on its back. We boughtit, too, for a French merchant showed us the houseof an honest gardener, who had a large empty store-room, and who agreed to take care of our Aca-pulco animals, and feed them half a year for tendollars. We understood how he could do it socheap, when we found out that bananas are sold in VOL. VIII.—8. Acapulco like turnips, by the wagon-load, and thata netful of fish can be bought for a few coppers. Our plan was to leave a lot of animals in everylarge place we passed through, and after we were. THE PEAKS OF LAS VEGAS. done, a freight agent from Marseilles was to col-lect them and ship ^hem to France. I finished all my private business in Acapulco thatsame day, and early the next morning we passedthrough the town in full marching order, and tookthe overland road that leads across the mountainstoward the virgin woods of Chiapas and Tabasco. Good luck! Good luck to you, friends!cried the neighbors, when we passed through thecity gate ; they took us for a party of gold-hunterson the way to the mountain mines. We mightcertainly think ourselves lucky in having started soearly, for an hour later, when the high-road wascovered with cars and riders, the dust becamealmost suffocating; and when a Mexican stage-coach whirled by at full gallop, we hardly could seethe head of the adelantero or outrider, with hisbroad hat and fluttering scarf: all the rest was onebig cloud of blinding dust. Never mind, said our guide, we soon shallreach the river-road, and leave t
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