Travels of Anna Bishop in Mexico1849 . c, onions and red-hot Chili pepper, thatthey kept the palate in one constant state of blis-ter, and incapable of tasting anything else for amonth. On the first day, at dinner, the mozo (waiter)perceiving that Anna had not regaled herself witha certain dish of calfs head, which he seemed tothink very highly of, handed it to her, expatiatingvastly on its merits of garlic; while, in endeavor-ing to make her comprehend the fiill force of itsnatme, he repeatedly touched his own forehead,with a leer, saying, Cabeza de ternera, lindasenorita, cabeza de ternera!
Travels of Anna Bishop in Mexico1849 . c, onions and red-hot Chili pepper, thatthey kept the palate in one constant state of blis-ter, and incapable of tasting anything else for amonth. On the first day, at dinner, the mozo (waiter)perceiving that Anna had not regaled herself witha certain dish of calfs head, which he seemed tothink very highly of, handed it to her, expatiatingvastly on its merits of garlic; while, in endeavor-ing to make her comprehend the fiill force of itsnatme, he repeatedly touched his own forehead,with a leer, saying, Cabeza de ternera, lindasenorita, cabeza de ternera! (Calfs head, prettysenorita^ calfs head!) which striking her as beinga capital joke, to say the least, she was persuadedto try his calf s head, and see^ if shB could not taste,what it was made of. Anna had, of course, very few visitors, duringher stay at Yera Cruz, not being partial to thesociety of vultures. Still she took various strollsout with Bochsa; and, on one of these occasions,entering a book-store, enquired of an old man who. ANNA IX MEXICO. 29 sat behind the counter, looking sad and yellow, ifa piano-forte could possibly be hired for a fewdays. At this question, put in very nice Caste-llano,* the man darted up from his chair andseemed thunderstruck! Que dice usted, senora,tengo necesita por un piano! To satisfy him thatshe did want a piano, Anna repeated her ques-tion. Un Piano! again ejaculated the astoundedman. Un Piano! Cuerpo de Cristo! SantaMaria purissima! Whereupon, completely hor-rified that she should want to amuse herself inthe time of a pestilence, he gasped out that shemust be mad, and, once more exclaiming UnPiano ! Un Piano ! rushed like a maniac intothe back room, leaving Anna and Bochsa gaz-zing at each other as though they were stunned !A few minutes elapsing, and nothing more being * The rare and happy facility which Madam Anna pos-sesses, of speaking a variety of languages, accounts for herproficiency in the Spanish, after but a few weeks residence
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