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Instead she nearly cracked José's head! Everybody laughed, and then it was Lupito's turn. Lupito was a great man at roping bulls, or breaking wild horses, but he couldn't hit the boat with his eyes covered any better than Carmen had. Then José tried. He struck the piñata but it was only a love-pat. The boat swung back and forth a little, but not a thing dropped overboard.
As Pancho and Pedro with their wives and Pedro's baby came into the room, she was saying: "Now, I'll blindfold each of you, one at a time, and you must whack the piñata real hard or nothing at all will happen! I'll begin!" She tied the cloth about her own eyes, turned round three times, and then struck out with the stick. But she didn't come anywhere near the piñata.
"Thanks to our letter of introduction, we were, through the kind offices of the members, permitted to enjoy the pleasures of their grand ball, called the 'Pinata, which was indeed a very grand affair, attended by the beauty and fashion of Matanzas.
But the grand affair of the evening is yet to come off, we are told, so we linger on, and are finally rewarded by the grand ceremony of the 'Pinata, from which the ball takes its name.
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