Wooed By a Sphinx of Aztlan the Romance of a Hero of Our Late Spanish American
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And it had the miraculous propensity to ever after wink its eye in the presence of a priest and at the approach of a Christ-hating Jew, it would spit. This virute saved much wealth for the family of Don Jose, as they were ever put on their guard against Jewish peddlers. The rumor that Don Jose Lopez had car- ried the household saint with him in his wagon was at once contradicted and disproved by his wife, Dona Mercedes. The lady declared that San Miguel had never left his shrine in the patio of... their residence except for the avowed 42 Wooed by a Sphinx of Aztlan purpose of making rain. In seasons of pro- tracted drouth, when crops and live stock suffer for want of water, crowds of Mexican people, mostly farmers' wives and their children, form processions and carry the images of saints round about the parched fields, chanting hymns and praying for rain. On this occasion Dona Mercedes availed her- self of the chance to extol the prowess and power of her family's idolized saint, San Miguel.
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