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It is nearly three hours' walk from the plaza of Puebla to that of Cholula, the Benares of the Aztecs, and for him who rises early it is a cold one. What little romance remains would have fled had I made the trip by mule-car.
"Oh, I know that!" was the cocksure reply as they alighted in Canal Street to take an up-town mule-car. Could Madame and Flora have overheard, how they would have smiled to each other.
Some time after, Pelias, the usurping king of Iolcus, was driving a mule-car through the market-place, when he saw a fine young man, with hair flowing on his shoulders, two spears in his hand, and only one sandal. He was very much afraid, for it had been foretold to him by an oracle that he would be slain by the man with one foot bare.
On the mule-car that dragged and jolted us out to the "Niagara of Mexico" were three resident Germans who strove to be "simpatico" to the natives by a clumsy species of "horse play."
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