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virgin sent to stop the [[strikethrough]] rain [[/strikethrough]] hail at Ahualulco

After this storm passed I was riding along the plain when I saw a Caracora Eagle chasing a half grown hare with great spirit. The hare avoided the [[casts?]] of the eagle by doubling and little bursts of speed but the eagle was keeping in dogged pursuit & would have worn out the [[strikethrough]] ra [[/strikethrough]] hare very soon but the latter took refuge in a hole dug in a small bank under a small bush. This hole ran back about 15 in. & then turned abruptly to the right & was enlarged & 18 in deep & must have been the [[?]] where this hare was born as the entrance was too obscure for it to have seen it otherwise.



us to Ahualulco at 1 p.m and to Tenchitlan at 6 pm. with a lame pack mule. Some days ago 2 violent hail showers visited Ahualulco and a messenger was sent post haste for a priest & the image of the virgin in the church at [[strikethrough]] Fam [[/strikethrough]] Itzatlan. She was taken in a carraige with the priest to Ahualulco followed by a long procession of men & women on foot while the bell in the church at Itzatlan tolled slowly like a knell to express the sorrow over her departure. She was kept in Ahualulco while 9 masses were said to secure against further hail. Today, less than a week later, while on the road east of Ahualulco a terrific storm of rain & hail fell from a cloud at the foot of the mts. and swept out over the plain like a dim gray wall enveloping Ahualulco as though no virgin had been there so recently. We were just at the outer edge of it but the blast of icy air driven from its centre chilled us & gave me a [[?]] cold, as a change of over 20 degrees in temp. occurred in less than 5 minutes.

I rode over & captured the hare for a specimen.