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We bring back each time four jars of water, which we sell here in the city for it is very good, sweet water at three tlacos the jar. You see, I make a great deal of money, señor three reales a day! If it were not for one single thing, I should soon be rich." That riches could be acquired rapidly on a basis of about twenty-seven cents, in our currency, a day struck me as a novel notion.
And thousands of poor peons had for months stinted themselves, often even gone hungry, to save enough tlacos to buy admission to the spectacle, to them the greatest and most magnificent it could ever be their good fortune to witness. The day was perfect, as indeed are most June days in Mexico.
The method of keeping accounts in the shops which, it is to be remembered, are almost always kept by white or half-white people, hardly ever by Indians is primitive enough. Here is a score which I copied, the hieroglyphics standing for dollars, half-dollars, medios or half-reals, cuartillos or quarter-reals, and tlacos or clacos which are eighths of a real, or about 3/4d.
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