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thought to be in danger of forsaking their church for the protestant.


Peddlers 

The streets of Guadalajara are full of sidewalk peddlers of every conceivable think [[thing]] - matches, candies, cakes, fruits, Ice cream, (strawberries), pulque, second-hand pistols, birds, and dozens of other things.

Among the most curious of all is roasted pig skin. When a pig is killed, [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] the hair is removed in the ordinary way and then it is skinned like other animals & the skin is washed & then baked or rather roasted until it is a large rough sheet of succulent crispiness. A string is tied about this & boy or man walks about the street shouting some unintelligible cry and the common people buy of him - he cuts off fragments according to the demand of the customer until