A single scene occurring in its streets is all of Chihuahuaense life to be depicted in this tale.
It was the spectacle of a religious procession--a thing far from uncommon in Chihuahua or any other Mexican town; on the contrary, so common that at least weekly the like may be witnessed.

This was one of the grandest, representing the story of the Crucifixion.

Citizens of all classes assisted at the ceremony, the soldiery also taking part in it.

The clergy, of course, both secular and regular, were its chief supports and propagators.

To them it brought bread, and if not butter-- since there is none in Chihuahua--it added to their incomes and influence, by the sale of leaden crosses, images of the Virgin Mother, and the numerous sisterhood of saints.