Among the Pueblo Indians . ondness the peoplehave for the game of gallo. Returning to the school-house, we had lunch ; andwhen the wagon had been loaded and the teamhitched, we started out of the pueblo, Mrs. Grozierand the school-children standing in the doorwaywaving to us. On the road beyond the river we met some Indianboys driving a herd of sheep and goats into thepueblo. As our supply of fresh meat was out, Juanselected a young lamb, intending to carry it in theback of the wagon, alive, until our arrival at SantoDomingo. He made the purchase, and the boyswent on to the pueblo with the rem
Among the Pueblo Indians . ondness the peoplehave for the game of gallo. Returning to the school-house, we had lunch ; andwhen the wagon had been loaded and the teamhitched, we started out of the pueblo, Mrs. Grozierand the school-children standing in the doorwaywaving to us. On the road beyond the river we met some Indianboys driving a herd of sheep and goats into thepueblo. As our supply of fresh meat was out, Juanselected a young lamb, intending to carry it in theback of the wagon, alive, until our arrival at SantoDomingo. He made the purchase, and the boyswent on to the pueblo with the remainder of theflock. A little further along the road was a tent filled withbales of alfalfa and used as a store for the benefit ofthe freighters who were hauling provisions and min-ing machinery from Wallace, a railroad town, toEagle, a silver- and gold-mining camp west of Cochiti,in the mountains. In front of the tent were scales,on which two Mexicans weighed the bales beforeselling. When but a short distance from the tent. Sigbt=seeinf?. the lamb, not beinj;- fixed in very seeurely, fell to theoTomid, where one of the wheels passed over its neck,and Juan was obliged to get it ready then and therefor the provision bag. Pena Blanea, a little Mexican town, with neat-look-ing adobe houses along the one street of the village,was just south of the alfalfa tent on the road to SantoDomingo. The single store the place boasted of con-tained a United vStates post-office, and around the doorof the building a crowd of idle young Mexicans hadcongregated. The most prominent object in the littletown was the old church, in front of which was thegraveyard enclosed by a low wall. From the centreof the enclosure rose a large wooden cross almost ashigh as the edifice itself. As we journeyed toward the south and comparedthe country with that further north, a great differencewas perceptible. The country grew more and morebarren the farther \\c travelled, and, although on allsides in the distance cou
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