The kingdom of the 'White woman' a sketch . in longpeals of demoniacal laughter. Lightningflashes over the half savage faces of SantaAnna and his merciless crew, while therattle of thunder brings back the spiritsof our own boys in blue over there onthe field of Molino del Rey where theyfell so bravely. All that, they say, can beseen and heard at night when the moon-light and stormlights chase each otherround the Hill of the Grasshopper. Butnow as the full light of the noon-day sunstrikes down upon Chapultepec, she is thecenter of a realm of peace and beauty,while around the old tree of the Atz
The kingdom of the 'White woman' a sketch . in longpeals of demoniacal laughter. Lightningflashes over the half savage faces of SantaAnna and his merciless crew, while therattle of thunder brings back the spiritsof our own boys in blue over there onthe field of Molino del Rey where theyfell so bravely. All that, they say, can beseen and heard at night when the moon-light and stormlights chase each otherround the Hill of the Grasshopper. Butnow as the full light of the noon-day sunstrikes down upon Chapultepec, she is thecenter of a realm of peace and beauty,while around the old tree of the Atzecmonarch a band of dark-eyed, scarlet-robedMexican children have joined hands andare dancing in and out of its wavingmosses to the sound of the balmy air is laden with the odor of 112 The Kingdom of the the magnolia, so heavy, so sweet, that onessenses are wafted into slumber, rendereddeeper and more profound by the singingof many birds and the gurgling soundof falling waters. ?o s. o?i c > >z D-H a o -> o n ?a. IV/iifc JVoma7i. CHAPTER XXV. I SHOULD warn all travelers who cometo Mexico to bring letters of creditand not drafts, as it is almost impossibleto have the latter cashed. No amount ofidentification seems to satisfy these bank-ers, who appear to imagine that the end andaim of the people from the States is toswindle them. It was our fortune, good or bad asyou please, to arrive just as an excursionfrom the north was departing, and we werefurnished with much amusement at themany promises left behind, and by thegeneral state of indignation caused bymany actions new and strange to the in-habitants of this ancient city. They could 114 ^/^^ Kingdom of the not imagine that even in the rush androar of the vast City of Chicago, not onlythe promises made to them, but even thevisit to their city would soon be forgottenutterly or remembered only as some thingafar off and dream like. On the occasionof that visit the contents of that greatcuriosity shop—the nat
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