A little earthen brazier for heating and cooking, a stone _metate_, a rubbing-stone for grinding corn-meal, a table heaped with bundles and boxes containing the family clothing, and a chair were all.

There were no beds, not even the mats which so frequently, among the poor of Mexico, take their place.

Several pictures of saints and of the virgin were pinned against the wall, and there were signs of tapers which had been burned before them.

A bird or two in wooden cages, a rooster and a little dog lived in the house with the family.
After answering various questions from the good woman and the little girl, I finally stated that I proposed to take Manuel with me to my country.

He would stay with me there for six months, after which he would come back and accompany me for three months longer on a journey into southern Mexico.