Southern California; . OOBOBO ^ ^^ • ->-i^^ -J-^ --^. Stands out on the plain, with the burying ground notfar away marked by a solitary pepper tree, a large cross,and many fenced graves. The houses are chiefly ofadobe, simple and picturesque, although a few framestructures obtrude their commonplace forms. Thepoorer families live in huts of brush which are some-times the merest makeshifts patched with old gunnysacks and rubbish. I observed one old woman sitting on the groundwith a piece of rusty iron in her hand, digging a hole inthe sandy soil, and wondered what she was about. Sheseemed to
Southern California; . OOBOBO ^ ^^ • ->-i^^ -J-^ --^. Stands out on the plain, with the burying ground notfar away marked by a solitary pepper tree, a large cross,and many fenced graves. The houses are chiefly ofadobe, simple and picturesque, although a few framestructures obtrude their commonplace forms. Thepoorer families live in huts of brush which are some-times the merest makeshifts patched with old gunnysacks and rubbish. I observed one old woman sitting on the groundwith a piece of rusty iron in her hand, digging a hole inthe sandy soil, and wondered what she was about. Sheseemed to be in no hurry and mumbled to me in ajargon of Spanish and Indian as she worked. Presentlythe hole was completed, for she stoodup and inserted a stake which she had§^?>? ->^. ifj). brought to the spot. With the same deliberation auother hole was dug stake stood in place. Othersticks and a pile of brush lying close —-- g^^ hand were to take their place upon the structure and ere night this venerable and deliberatebuilder of houses w
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