With difficulty we got some mats, and I lay down upon the smaller table, Frank on the larger, Louis and Manuel rolled up on the ground below the latter, and Ramon and the _mozo_ on the long bench.

Half a dozen of the older men remained sitting about the fire.

It can be understood that the room was fairly full.

The men made no pretense of sleeping until past ten o'clock, and two or three times during the night they broke out into loud conversation.
[Illustration: CHINANTEC GIRL SPINNING; SAN JUAN ZAUTLA] [Illustration: CHINANTEC WEAVING; SAN JUAN ZAUTLA] Just outside the town-house, under a thatched shelter, a group of old women were cooking _atole_ in great _ollas_ until a late hour.

This gruel they ladled out to those men and boys who had been working, and doled out to them drinks from black bottles.