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Updated: June 27, 2025
Joe," Hart said, when he was telling Cherry about it, "Palomitas ain't no sort of a town to bring aunts to and it's about the last town I know of where Aunt Maria'll fit in! She's the old-fashioned kind, right up to the limit, Aunt Maria is.
And the name stuck. More folks in Palomitas had names that had tumbled to 'em like that than the kind that had come regular. And even when they sounded regular they likely wasn't.
Believe me, sir" and Santa Fé stood up straight and stuck his chest out "Palomitas has its own high standards of morality: and it never fails to maintain those standards in its own stern way!" The little man didn't say nothing back. He looked like he was sort of mazed.
Santa Fé said it was all in the game to run him up to the telegraph-pole in front of the deepo, the same as other folks; but no committee had no right, he said, to make a circus of him by packing him all round the place after poor old Bill who always had been plain in his tastes, and would have been the last man in Palomitas to want that kind of a fuss made over him and he didn't mean to take a hand in no such fool carryings-on.
All there was of Palomitas was on deck, and Becker'd come over from Santa Cruz de la Cañada, and old man Bouquet from Pojuaque, and Sam and Marcus Elbogen had driven across on their buck-board from San Juan and Mexicans had come in from all around in droves.
He had the cards for that, he said, because his mother'd helped run a Dorcas Society back East and he knowed what he was talking about. The Palomitas one met Thursdays, he told her, at the Forest Queen. That was the principal hotel, he told her, and was kept by Mrs.
Hill said he'd never heard tell of such a concern; but he sized it up to be some sort of a fancy German garden like the one Becker'd fixed up for himself over to Santa Cruz and he said he allowed, from the way she asked about it, it was what Palomitas ought to have. So he told her there was, and it was the best one in the Territory and let it go at that.
Hart's aunt, he said, come from a quiet part of Vermont, and likely would be jolted bad when she struck Palomitas if things was going the ordinary way she being elderly, and like enough a little set in her ways, and not used much to crazy drunks, and shooting-matches, and such kinds of lively carryings-on.
This place where the track got stuck sticking partly because there was trouble with the Atchison, and partly because the Company couldn't foreclose onto a year jag any more out of the English stockholders to build on with was up on a bluff right over the Rio Grande and was called Palomitas.
As the only church in Palomitas was the Mexican mud one about two hundred years old, and as the nearest thing to a parsonage was the Padre's house that Denver Jones had rented and had his faro-bank in, Hill said he guessed Charley acted sensible in not trying to show the old gent around that part of the town.
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