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Identifier: outing53newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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on a desolate hill-side, surrounded perhaps by a few, raggedbanana trees. Once the train stoppedwhere the red dirt road crossed the trackand took on a man whose peon rode offthrough the chaparral, leading his mastershorse. During the long waits at planta-tion switches and way stations, to allowtrain loads of sugar cane to pass us, thetime was whiled away by bargaining withthe incorrigible-looking scalawags who solddulcies (sweets) and fruits; one could pur-chase fine large oranges for three cents adozen and a cocoa-de-agua for two cents.These green cocoanuts were still in thehusk and were opened for the purchaserby the vender with a couple of strokes ofa savage-looking machete. The first, second and third classes of thisroad seemed to grade from the affluenceof our American branch-road smoking carsdown to a rickety little open-trailer withwooden seats and a sickening sidewaysmotion when running at speed. In Ponce we were fortunate enough toreceive an invitation to visit the studio of
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Where hangs the family washing amidst patches of brilliantsunlight and purpled shadows. Painting by Roy Martell Mason.

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