pataques

Updated: June 9, 2025

Yet the good blood dies not with the poverty. It is buried, hidden, but it remains the same. It is like these pataques. You plant good ones for seed: you get a good crop. You plant bad ones: you get a bad crop. But we did not know about the title in our family. No. We thought ours was a side-branch, an off-shoot. It was a great surprise to us. But it is certain, beyond a doubt."

Henry Van Dyke - The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature