Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . ristic sight in Havanastreets is a mass of green advancing without any visible means of pro-gression, until closer view reveals that it is a stack of green corn foddercovering and enveloping and concealing the animal bearing it. Thisfodder, which is the staple food of horses, consists of the corn stalks,leaves and tassels; it is grown the year round and is brought into townin fresh supplies daily. Milk cans are carried in panniers on
Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . ristic sight in Havanastreets is a mass of green advancing without any visible means of pro-gression, until closer view reveals that it is a stack of green corn foddercovering and enveloping and concealing the animal bearing it. Thisfodder, which is the staple food of horses, consists of the corn stalks,leaves and tassels; it is grown the year round and is brought into townin fresh supplies daily. Milk cans are carried in panniers on the backs ofhorses; the old custom of driving cows through the streets and milkingthem at the door has been discontinued. The poultry dealer brings in his livechickens and turkeys slung head down from the shoulder; and live pigsare carried in the same manner. The rule is to buy chickens alive, forthey are cooked immediately after killing, which is the reason that theflesh of fowls is tough when brought to the table. The open grille windows are of course favorable to the street vendersof all classes, and their musical cries are heard everywhere. Our illus-. THE SHOE SELLER. /,V AND ABOUT THE CITY. 87 trations are characteristic—theshoe-seller crying his zapatasand zapatillas strung on a rodsuspended from the shoulder, andthe seller of laces carrying his as-sortment displayed in alluringarray en a staff. Then there is thebaratillero, whose stock of littlenotions—pins and needles andother housewife supplies—is con-tained in wooden boxes with glassends, carried on the back of horseor donkey. The Tacon Market, Mercado deTacon, or Plaza de Vapor, is thelargest in the city, and containsthe most varied display of Cubanproducts. In the stalls are seenred and yellow bananas, plantains,oranges, grape fruit, limes, shad-docks, citrons, sapotas, sapadillos,anonas, mameys, mangos, agua-cates, guanabanas, pineapples, co-coanuts, yams and cassava, andother tropical productions, with asc
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