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[[strikethrough]] The interior of the market is divided into stalls & is more orderly while less picturesque. On same time the show of fruits [[strikethrough]] is [[strikethrough]] etc is an attractive one.

In all the adjacent streets are great number of pulque shops where men + women drink pulque all day long & at night the streets are blocked by a teeming mass of the lower classes who become drunk upon this wine of the maguey as they call it in paraphrase. The outer walls of these shops are usually gaudily painted & ornamented & bear various 

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