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mentioned to returned to Tlalpam [[Tlalpan]] just before Christmas and found everyone preparing to celebrate the night. For nine (?) nights before Christmas the Mexican families celebrate what is called [[strikethrough]] making [[strikethrough]] "Hacer Posada". A kind of altar is built up on a table on one side of the room and covered with moss, fir twigs and forming a tower of greenery down this are scattered little images of various domestic animals besides tinsel wire, paper flowers rather bright decorations and before this candles are kept burning in the evening. Each evening a small candle like letter with an image 

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I think the + sign is meant to be read as "and" but I marked that particular instance with a * to denote its deviation from the original text.