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PICTURES OF LIFE IN MEXICO.

I therefore accepted the offer of the capitaz to remain in his employment, in the room of the villain so justly punished. And I trust that here, though labouring" far harder and longer for my daily food than I was formerly in the habit of doing; I may yet spend the remainder of my days in honesty and peace.' "