This curious art was practised by the highest nobility, and held in great esteem, just as working tapestry used to be in Europe, only that the feather-work was mostly done by men.

It is a lost art, for one cannot take much account of such poor things as are done now, in which, moreover, the designs are European.

In this garden at Tacubaya we saw for the first time the praying Mantis, and caught him as he sat in his usual devotional attitude.

His Spanish name is "el predicador," the preacher.
We got back to Mexico in time for the Corrida de Toros.

The bull-ring was a large one, and there were many thousands of people there; but as to the spectacle itself, whether one took it upon its merits, or merely compared it with the bull-fights of Old Spain, it was disgusting.