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Title: Two bird-lovers in Mexico
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Beebe, William, 1877-1962
Subjects: Natural history -- Mexico Birds -- Mexico
Publisher: London, A. Constable & company, ltd. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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If the flattened rails, in the uncertainty as to whetherthey will squeeze the wheels until they shriek, orwhether they will allow the car to ramble gutterwardat will, are bewildering, the switches are positivelyuncanny in the remarkable actions which they cause acar to perform. Rarely the car succeeds in proceedingupon the track intended. Sometimes it fails altogether,and there ensues a bewildering mixup of six nudes,the two cars running together as closely as the kick-ing animals will permit. Again, the front truck willobediently follow the tugs of the mules, while the rearwheels endeavour to side-track themselves, as a resultswinoiuo; the car crosswise in the street. But no oneever loses temper, or hurries, so dilHculties unwind indue season. «# 66 ^ Z^^rm OASIS AND DESERT ^ife; The most remarkable manoeuvre is a flying switchperformed with a single mule, a diminutive car, anda bridge built across a sand-gully on a road leading tothe northwest of the city. As the car approaches the
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THE OUTSKIRTS OF GUADALAJARA bridge, a full gallop is attained by means of constantand vigorous applications of the whip, while the con-ductor hurls stones and Spanish epithets at the wildlyflying mule. At the critical moment, just as the openties are reached, the mules traces, in some inexplicableway, are cast off, he is swerved into a path at the leftof the road, and, well trained by long experience,dashes down across the gully and up on the other side,where he trots slowly along the track. Simultaneouslywith his frantic scramble, the cars momentum carries «4 67 ^ :::::::::*■ TWO BIRD-LOVERS IN MEXICO W^:^ it across the bridge and up to the place where themule is jogging along, when his traces are refastenedand the regular gallop is resumed. As a spectacularjjerformance it is worthy of being instituted as a circusfeature ! The way to Agua AzuL or the Blue Water/ as theoasis is called, is along a path shaded l)y two lines ofwillows, and a few minutes after leaving the city onealig

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