Six Months in Mexico
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Nellie Bly. Six Months in Mexico
CHAPTER I. ADIEU TO THE UNITED STATES
CHAPTER II. EL PASO DEL NORTE
CHAPTER III. ALONG THE ROUTE
CHAPTER IV. THE CITY OF MEXICO
CHAPTER V. IN THE STREETS OF MEXICO
CHAPTER VI. HOW SUNDAY IS CELEBRATED
CHAPTER VII. A HORSEBACK RIDE OVER HISTORIC GROUNDS
CHAPTER VIII. A MEXICAN BULL-FIGHT
CHAPTER IX. THE MUSEUM AND ITS CURIOSITIES
CHAPTER X. HISTORIC TOMBS AND LONELY GRAVES
CHAPTER XI. CUPID'S WORK IN SUNNYLAND
CHAPTER XII. JOAQUIN MILLER AND COFFIN STREET
CHAPTER XIII. IN MEXICAN THEATERS
CHAPTER XIV. THE FLOATING GARDENS
CHAPTER XV. THE CASTLE OF CHAPULTEPEC
CHAPTER XVI. THE FEASTS OF THE GAMBLERS
CHAPTER XVII. FEAST OF FLOWERS AND LENTEN CELEBRATIONS
CHAPTER XVIII. GUADALUPE AND ITS ROMANTIC LEGEND
CHAPTER XIX. A DAY'S TRIP ON A STREET CAR
CHAPTER XX. WHERE MAXIMILIAN'S AMERICAN COLONY LIVED
CHAPTER XXI. A MEXICAN ARCADIA
CHAPTER XXII. THE WONDERS OF PUEBLA
CHAPTER XXIII. THE PYRAMID OF CHOLULA
CHAPTER XXIV. A FEW NOTES ABOUT MEXICAN PRESIDENTS
CHAPTER XXV. MEXICAN SOLDIERS AND THE RURALES
CHAPTER XXVI. THE PRESS OF MEXICO
CHAPTER XXVII. THE GHASTLY TALE OF DON JUAN MANUEL
CHAPTER XXVIII. A MEXICAN PARLOR
CHAPTER XXIX. LOVE AND COURTSHIP IN MEXICO
CHAPTER XXX. SCENES WITHIN MEXICAN HOMES
CHAPTER XXXI. THE ROMANCE OF THE MEXICAN PULQUE
CHAPTER XXXII. MEXICAN MANNERS
CHAPTER XXXIII. NOCHE TRISTE TREE
CHAPTER XXXIV. LITTLE NOTES OF INTEREST
CHAPTER XXXV. A FEW RECIPES FOR MEXICAN DISHES
CHAPTER XXXVI. SOME MEXICAN LEGENDS
CHAPTER XXXVII. PRINCESS JOSEFA DE YTURBIDE
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"My dear child, do you feel rested enough?" I heard my mother ask.
"Are you up already?" I asked, turning on my side, to see her as she sat, dressed, by the open window, through which came a lazy, southern breeze.
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El Paso del Norte boasts of a real Mexican prison. It is a long, one-storied adobe building, situated quite handy to the main plaza, and within hearing of the merry-making of the town. There are no cells, but a few adobe rooms and a long court, where the prisoners talk together and with the guards, and count the time as it laggingly slips away. They very often play cards and smoke cigarettes. Around this prison is a line of soldiers. It is utterly impossible to cross it without detection.
Mexican keepers are not at all particular that the prisoners are fed every day. An American, at the hands of the Mexican authorities, suffers all the tortures that some preachers delight to tell us some human beings will find in the world to come.
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