A Tramp Across the Continent
A Tramp Across the Continent
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All are adobe, small but well made, and have from one to three rooms — generally two. They are whitewashed with gypsum inside, and beautifully neat. In the corner of each room is the comical — but withal incomparably convenient — adobe fire-place, common to all Mexican and Indian houses, and in it stand the knotted sticks of cedar, for in this country wood is always burned upright instead of horizontally. In the hearth, in all probability, you may see sundry rude images of red clay bak- ing, or... well-made pottery, of peculiar polish and decoration, and characteristic shape. Kow some very excellent travellers from the East buy these fantastic images and take them home as "Indian idols, " whereby they become a laughing-stock. These people are hardly more idolaters than we are. They make these " idols " simply to sell to the confiding, and they do sell both by the hundreds. Nor are pottery and earthen dolls their only 108 A TRAMP ACROSS THE CONTINENT resources thereunto. On their walls hang Spring- field and Winchester rifles, double-barrelled shot- guns, and the like, cartridge belts and reloading tools J but they sell to tourists any quantity of bows and arrows and raw-hide shields, and the tourists carry off the relics as something really used by the " red " men !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
All are adobe, small but well made, and have from one to three rooms — generally two. They are whitewashed with gypsum inside, and beautifully neat. In the corner of each room is the comical — but withal incomparably convenient — adobe fire-place, common to all Mexican and Indian houses, and in it stand the knotted sticks of cedar, for in this country wood is always burned upright instead of horizontally. In the hearth, in all probability, you may see sundry rude images of red clay bak- ing, or... well-made pottery, of peculiar polish and decoration, and characteristic shape. Kow some very excellent travellers from the East buy these fantastic images and take them home as "Indian idols, " whereby they become a laughing-stock. These people are hardly more idolaters than we are. They make these " idols " simply to sell to the confiding, and they do sell both by the hundreds. Nor are pottery and earthen dolls their only 108 A TRAMP ACROSS THE CONTINENT resources thereunto. On their walls hang Spring- field and Winchester rifles, double-barrelled shot- guns, and the like, cartridge belts and reloading tools J but they sell to tourists any quantity of bows and arrows and raw-hide shields, and the tourists carry off the relics as something really used by the " red " men !
What to read after A Tramp Across the Continent?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Charles Fletcher Lummis to read onlineMoreLess
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