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Identifier: outing53newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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read out like apple trees, but have asmooth, light-gray bark. In the walnutharvest time the school closes for six week>to give the children a chance to helpgather the crop. Some of the nuts fall ofthemselves, but a large proportion isthrashed off with poles. A sack is theusual receptacle carried by the gatherers,but the women use their aprons. Back ofmy hotel were a number of the greatslatted racks on which the nuts were dried.A few nuts were still left on the frames andI often loitered there and feasted. If Ichose I could supplement this repast withoranges picked from trees in the garden. The hotel was an old-time stage-routetavern—a big, long two-story building witha piazza and balcony on both front andrear. It had been built about three dec-ades ago. There was then no railroad,and, as the landlord said, In those times,by golly, the hotel was jammed all thetime. The daily stages, one going southone going north, met here at midnight, andwe always had hot coffee ready for persons
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The local court is a center of interest. 468 The Outing Magazine that wanted it. Youve noticed how thevillage people go and hang around thedepot to see the trains come in. Well,they used to gather at our hotel just asthick to see those midnight stages arrive. You ought to be here the last day ofLent—Judas Day, we call it. The nightbefore, it is customary for the Mexicans toransack the village and steal buggies andtools and anything they can carry off, andthey make a big pile of all this plunder justoutside the fence in front of the old Mission.Then they take a worn-out suit of clothesand stuff it full of weeds, and stick it up ontop of the pile, and that is Judas. Nextthing they get an old dress and stuff thatfull of weeds and set it up side of Judas torepresent his wife. In the morning whenwe wake up we find all the vehicles andloose things that were around our yardsstacked up over by the Mission, with thosetwo scarecrow figures on top. But thebest of the performance comes in the a

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