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inoculated against rabies the day before.
Doña Inés has been in Bogotá only a year or so; her father came from Spain in 1937; she was in Rome and came later. One of her sisters teaches Spanish at Wheaton and another is in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
After lunch Señor Osorno called at the apartment to take us to see his beehives. He lives in an old house near Carrera 3a and Calle 16 or 17. It is ochre colored and is in the old style, with the door opening directly on the street. We entered first a short unlighted passage, which led to another door. Beyond that was a flowered patio on our right, with overhangs on all four sides, then another short passage leading to a second patio, this time on our left, with large pots of plants, and on the near side there was a small pipe standing two feet above the floor and ending in a faucet which was very slowly filling an old tin pail. Another corridor connected this patio with another, somewhat larger and paved with square stones. Here to our right was a high stone tub with a woman washing; she paid no attention to us. There were many small rectangular beds built up with old bricks set on edge; they were mostly grassed over, with small trees and shrubs, and bordered with privet hedge. (See picture of Osorno on page 20). There was an Abutilon with yellow flowers, a very large privet, a smaller privet with variegated leaves and a large bush of huge yellow roses. There were several cages of birds, one
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Alicia, María Teresa, Isabel, the Chapins, Isabelita, Osorno.