[A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Kate Sanborn]@TWC D-Link bookA Truthful Woman in Southern California CHAPTER IV 2/7
"Its broken olive mill and crumbling dove-cote, and the spacious weed-grown courts and corridors, are pathetic witnesses to the grandeur of the plans and purposes of the founders, and also of the rapidity with which nature effaces the noblest works of human hands." But San Luis Rey is in good condition, having been restored to something of its original beauty, and recently re-dedicated.
The walled enclosures once contained fifty-six acres, six being covered by the sacred edifice, its arched colonnades, and the cloisters, in which the Fathers lived, surrounded by three thousand baptized savages.
Mrs. Jeanne C.Carr quotes a stage-driver with whom she talked on the box as saying: "Ye see, ma'am, what them old padders didn't know 'bout findin' work for their subjicks and pervidin' for the saints 'n' angels, not to say therselves, wa'n't wuth knowin'.
They carried on all kinds o' bizness.
Meat was plenty, keepin' an' vittles was to be had at all the missions an' ranches too, jes' by settin' round.
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