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& closely wrapped in their serapes waiting for the rising sun to warm them up. 

The houses of the peon class are chilly & often damp & the owners are out early in the morning to take a warming from the earliest rays of the sun. In the city of Mex. as well as in the smaller towns the homes of this class are, as a rule, mere dungeon—like adobe boxes with only a heavy plank door for admission of air & light. When the owner has advanced ideas, he may have a window cut in the wall with wooden bars across.

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